St Barnabas House is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. Church. 3 related planning applications.

St Barnabas House

WRENN ID
peeling-floor-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1973
Type
Church
Address
St Barnabas House, Highfield Place, S2 4UR
OS grid reference
SK 350 856
Coordinates
53.36677, -1.47428
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Barnabas House is a church that has been converted into flats. It was built in 1876 by the architectural firm Flockton & Abbot and underwent conversion in 1990. The building is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs with coped gables, showcasing the Gothic Revival style.

The church has an apsidal sanctuary and crypt, a nave, aisles, a south-west tower, and a north-west porch. The exterior includes a plinth and buttresses, and the windows have been reglazed. The apse features three 2-light pointed arched windows with quatrefoils set on a sillband, while the crypt has three flat-headed 2-light windows. The nave's west gable has a pointed arched recess with a cusped round window above, and below it are two 2-light pointed arched windows with quatrefoil heads, separated by a major mullion.

The gabled north aisle consists of five bays, with a corbel table and bays divided by pilasters and buttresses, and it includes four 2-light pointed arched windows. To the west, there is a shallow porch with a steep pitched gable and a moulded pointed arched door. The east gable has a blocked round window and a coped gable stack, while the west gable features a graduated 3-light pointed arched window with a hoodmould. The similar south aisle has four bays and four 2-light windows, with the east gable containing a blocked 2-light pointed arched window and a blocked round window above.

The square south-west tower has three stages, with a plinth, angle buttresses, a string course, a corbel table, and a coped parapet with corner pedestals and blind crosslets. A shallow square stair turret is located to the south-east. The lower stage includes a single lancet window with a hoodmould on the west side, a moulded pointed arched doorway with single shafts and trefoils in the spandrels on the south, a flat single lancet window to the south, and slit lights to the east and west. The bell stage features two rebated pointed arched openings with louvres on each side, linked by a billeted impost band. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

St Barnabas House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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