Etruria House Hotel

SK38NW 784-1/5/227

SHEFFIELD CROOKES ROAD (South West side) No.91 Etruria House Hotel

GV II

House, now hotel. 1876, with late C20 alterations. Built for John Armitage, manufacturer of decorative fireclay products. Yellow brick, with lavish moulded fireclay ornament and hipped slate roof with coped brick ridge and side wall stacks. Plinth, dentilled ground floor cornice and first floor sillband, string course, modillion eaves with floral panels. 2 storeys; 5 window range. 5 segment-headed plain sashes with ornamented surrounds, the third and fourth windows arranged as a pair above a bay window. Below, 2 canted brick bay windows with dentilled cornices and panelled coped parapets, with 3 round-arched plain sashes divided by twisted Corinthian columns and flanked by pilasters. Between the windows, a fireclay doorcase with panelled Corinthian pilasters, ornamented segmental head and cornice, partly blocked and containing a late C20 casement. To right of the bay windows, an identical doorcase with C20 door and overlight. Beyond, a set back service wing with side wall stack, 2 storeys; single window range. Double plain sash with central shaft, and below, C20 door and sidelights. INTERIOR: entrance hall has enriched segmental arch on double columns and wooden staircase with turned balusters. Central room has pierced cornice and panelled ceiling with boss. The nearby steps (qv) lodge and gate piers, (qv) and Armitage's works at Devonshire Street (qv) are also lavishly ornamented with his products.

Listing NGR: SK3319687109