Edmund Road Drill Hall

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE EDMUND ROAD 784-1/6/304 (West side) 20/12/78 Edmund Road Drill Hall

GV II

Drill hall, now garage and workshops. 1878-79. By ME Hadfield and Sons, with internal structure by Andrew Handyside of Derby. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled plain tile and corrugated iron roofs. Tudor Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, string course, coped gables and parapet. 2 storeys plus 3-stage tower; 10 window range. Front windows have stone mullions. Off-centre entrance tower has string courses, machicolated panelled sides and octagonal corner turrets, crenellated parapet and a coped corner stack. Pointed arched entrance with dummy portcullis, wrought-iron gates and raised hoodmould. Above, a segment-headed window flanked by flat-headed windows set lower. Above again, a recessed panel with coat of arms. To left, a 2 storey gabled block with 2 mullioned windows above and 2 cross-mullioned windows below. To its left, a hipped single storey addition with a canted bay window. To right, a 2-storey range with off-centre external stack. To its left, a single window with a mullioned window to right and a 6-pane cross mullioned window to left. Below, 2 cross mullion windows flanked to left by a segmental pointed door with overlight. To the right of the stack, 3 cross mullioned windows on each floor. Right return has a smaller external stack flanked by single plain sashes, and to right, 4 similar sashes. Below, mainly mid C20 windows and doors. Main hall, at rear, has clerestory with blocked windows. Left return, 13 bays, has blind arcades with pointed arches and towards the left, a gabled 2 storey wing. Right return has mainly segment-headed windows and doors and to right, a cross-wing with mainly late C20 fenestration. INTERIOR: hall, approx. 50 x 30m, has shallow arched cast-iron lattice trusses bearing on internal brick buttresses linked by shallow pointed arches. A late work of Andrew Handyside.

Listing NGR: SK3554586243