Loxley House (Royal Navy Training Ship Sheffield) And Adjoining Service Wing

Loxley House, originally a country house and later associated service wing, was built in 1795 with additions in 1826, and subsequently altered in the mid and late 20th century. It now serves as a Royal Navy Training Ship. The building is constructed of ashlar with a hipped slate roof, featuring two coped ridge stacks and two side wall stacks. The exterior has a plinth, rusticated quoins, sill and impost bands, modillion eaves, and a balustrade. Most windows are Venetian style with multi-paned sashes, keystones, and glazing bars. The main block is three stories with three windows, and is set back from two-story wings with single windows. The wings have round-headed windows on the upper level. A balustraded, roofless porch has corner pilasters and single Doric columns framing the entrance, with a single multi-paned window on each side. The entrance features a fielded six-panel door with sidelights and an overlight. A rear wing, two stories plus a basement, includes three round windows with glazing bars and keystones on its east side—the left window is blocked—and a higher-set three-light glazing bar casement to the right. Further to the right is a boarded door flanked by single round windows. Upstairs, a three-light glazing bar casement is on the left, and four tall glazing bar casements are on the right. Below, on the left, are two fielded six-panel doors, with three three-light casements between them, two set in round-headed carriage arches. To the right, a blocked door is flanked by single two-light mullioned windows, followed by a fielded six-panel door and a pair of segment-headed carriage doors. A paved ramp with a stepped coped retaining wall, and a spearhead railing, provides access to the first floor at the right end. The west side has irregularly placed windows, including three round windows. The interior includes an entrance hall with a modillion cornice and an open-well cantilever stone staircase with cast-iron fleur-de-lys balusters and a mahogany handrail. Significant rooms feature fluted doorcases with cornices, a first-floor landing with a round-headed doorcase, a hood on scroll brackets, a cobweb fanlight, a moulded cornice, a half-round domed recess, an inlaid limestone Classical fireplace, enriched cornices, and 19th-century marble fireplaces. The service wing has segmental vaults throughout its basement and upper levels.