Jessop Hospital For Women

SHEFFIELD

SK3487SE LEAVY GREAVE ROAD 784-1/23/473 (North side) Jessop Hospital for Women

GV II

Womens' hospital. 1878, by John Dodsley Webster. For Thomas Jessop. Addition to west 1902, in a sympathetic style. Gothic Revival style. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with various coped brick stacks. L-plan. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands, machicolated eaves, coped gables. 3 storeys; 8 window range. Windows are mainly transomed or cross mullioned, with stone mullions. Entrance front has central range, 5 windows, flanked by gabled wings. Slightly projecting central entrance bay topped by a single stage tower with cornice and plain parapet, and 2 single lancet openings on each side, with hoodmoulds. On the first floor, 3 cross casements flanked by single light windows. Above, similar fenestration, with an ogee crest to the central window. Below, round-arched entrance with double doors, inscribed lintel, label mould and crest. On either side, a cross casement, then a single light window, with label moulds and crests. Left gable has a cross casement and above, a taller cross casement with traceried ogee head and finial. Below, a square bay window with 3-light cross casement. Right gable has 2 cross casements and above, 2 similar windows with traceried ogee heads and between them, a roundel. Below, two 3-light cross casements with label moulds and finials. Right return, 3 windows, has a central projecting gabled bay and to left, a 2 storey square oriel window at the corner, topped with a pyramidal spire. Left return has 2 canted 3 storey bay windows, the left one with a large C20 flat-roofed bay window. West front has to right an entrance block, 3 storeys plus attics, with 2 windows in the centre flanked by gabled wings. On the ground floor, a single storey central porch with parapet. To left, a lower block with coped parapet and central projecting bay with 3 storey canted bay window topped with a balustrade. On either side, 2 windows. At the left corner, a 2 storey square oriel window topped with a pyramidal spire. Left return has a canted 3 storey bay window to left, topped with a balustrade, and 2 windows to right. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3452287287