Sheffield High School For Girls

SHEFFIELD

SK3386NW RUTLAND PARK 784-1/26/633 (North East side) No.8 Sheffield High School for Girls

GV II

House, now part of Sheffield High School for Girls (qv). c1875, with mid C20 additions. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with various stacks. Tudor Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, quoins, first floor sillband, coped gables. 3 storeys; 2 x 2 windows. Entrance front has to right a gable with a 2-storey canted bay window topped with a roofed balcony. On the lower floors, a 2-light stone mullioned cross casement flanked by single light windows. Pent-roofed balcony has 3 shouldered openings and pierced balustrades, and coped gables ending in pedestals topped with ball finials. Above the balcony, a triangular 4-light window with stone mullions. Entrance bay, to left, has deep machicolated and crenellated parapet. On the upper floors, a stone mullioned cross casement flanked by single light windows. Below, a chamfered flat-headed doorway with recessed half-glazed Tudor arched door with mullioned overlight. To its left, a small single window. Right return has a large external side wall stack. Garden front has 2 gables flanked by pedestals with ball finials. To left a square 2-storey bay window with crenellated parapet and a 3-light stone mullioned cross casement on each floor. Above, in the gable, a 3-light stone mullioned window with moulded surround and stepped head. To right, a canted 2 storey bay window with crenellated parapet and a stone mullioned cross casement on each floor, flanked by single light windows. Above, a 2-light stone mullioned window. Right gable has an external stack, flanked by single light windows on the lower floors and above by a single window to left. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK3349886573