Description

SK38NW
784-1/5/99

SHEFFIELD

BRINCLIFFE CRESCENT
(South West side)
No.6
The Towers

GV
II

House. Dated 1874. For James Wilson. Coursed squared stone
with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. French
Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, eaves band, shouldered coped
gables with kneelers. 2 storeys plus attics; 2 x 6 windows.
Entrance front has 2 wooden framed cross casements with label
moulds, and 2 buttressed external stacks. Central crenellated
porch with buttresses and chamfered and moulded pointed arched
doorway with panelled double doors. Above the door, a niche
with crest and pinnacle. Right return has an unglazed opening
with cusped head and 2 shafts. On the left side, an attached
canted bay window with 2 plain sashes and central shaft. To
right, a canted hipped single storey projection with plinth
and moulded eaves and wooden framed cross casement with
glazing bars.
Garden front has to right a main block, with projecting
central round tower flanked by gabled wings. Tower has string
courses and crenellated parapet, bays divided by buttresses
topped with pinnacles, and conical slated spire. On the first
floor, 3 stone mullioned cross casements. Above, 3 cusped
headed triple lancets. Below, 3 single light mullioned windows
with transoms. Wings have on the first floor a 3-light cross
casement and above, a smaller 2-light casement window, all
with label moulds. Below, a canted bay window with crenellated
parapet and crest, the central light of the left one altered
to a French window. Lower range to left has on each floor a
stone mullioned cross casement. At the left corner, a 2 storey
round tower with buttresses, crenellated parapet and octagonal
spire. On the first floor, a 3-light stone mullioned cross
casement, flanked by single light transomed windows, all with
blind tracery. Below, two 2-light windows with central shaft,
divided by a buttress.
Left return has to right an entrance bay with a canted stone
oriel window on corbels and scroll brackets, with a hipped
roof. Crenellated parapet with stepped flat topped gable
containing a pointed arched recess with datestone. Stone
mullioned cross casement with stained glass. Below, chamfered
pointed arched doorway with fleurons, covering a narrow door
with overlight, flanked to left by a small casement.
To left, a hipped double bay with moulded string course with
central ogee arch and finial. 2 stone mullioned cross
casements. Below, a 5-light stone mullioned cross casement
with major mullions to the central light. Above it, a cusped
headed panel containing a rebus.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3334085336

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539282

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)