Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3587SE NORFOLK STREET
784-1/25/547 (North West side)
Cathedral House

GV II

Presbytery to Cathedral Church of St Marie (qv). Dated 1903.
Red brick with ashlar dressings and steep pitched Westmorland
slate roofs. 2 gable and 2 side wall brick stacks with stone
bands and multiple flues. Eclectic Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, sillbands, coped and crenellated parapets. 3
storeys; 3:1 window range.
Norfolk Street front has canted 2 storey oriel window with
parapet. Central niche with figure, flanked by single
shouldered window. Beyond, on either side, a single sash with
glazing bars and hoodmould. Above, similar fenestration, the
oriel window having a central blank. Below, central moulded
pointed arched doorway with nodding gabled canopy and door
with ogee headed fanlight. On either side, 2 small glazing bar
sashes with hoods cut in the lintels.
To left, a single storey range with 3 flat-headed cusped
single lancets. To right, a gable set at an angle with a 2
storey canted bay window with 4 shouldered glazing bar sashes
above and 4 plain sashes below under gabled hoodmoulds. Above,
a triple glazing bar sash flanked by pilasters which run up
into the diaper-work gable peak and are topped with traceried
gables.
Right return has to left, a 2 storied canted wooden oriel
window with triple glazing bar sashes, flanked by single
glazing bar sashes on each floor, the upper ones in flat
topped through-eaves dormers. Below, 3 similar windows. All
these windows have surrounds with pointed heads. To right, a
further range, 3 windows, with 2 gabled through-eaves dormers.
Rear has a parapeted semicircular stair turret with a 4-light
cross mullioned window.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3551187290

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539166

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)