Wesley House and Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. Methodist institute.
Wesley House and Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- silent-screen-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1995
- Type
- Methodist institute
- Address
- Wesley House and Boundary Railings, Highfield Place
- OS grid reference
- SK 351 856
- Coordinates
- 53.36645, -1.47395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wesley House, originally a Methodist institute and now functioning as a Citizens' Advice Bureau, was built in 1906. The building features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has gabled and hipped slate roofs, complete with large coped ridges and stacks on the gables and side walls. It is designed in the Perpendicular Revival style and includes moulded sill and eaves bands, as well as a moulded coped parapet and gables. The structure consists of two storeys and a single storey plus a basement, with a four-window range.
Most of the windows are stone mullioned cross casements. The main block has four 3-light windows on the left side. To the right, there is a square porch that spans the area, featuring a moulded crenellated parapet and a central crocket finial. The porch contains a moulded segment-headed doorway with a hoodmould and foliage stops, framed by a 4-panel double door and a mullioned fanlight. Above the porch, to the left, is a flush gable flanked by hexagonal buttresses with fluted concave-sided caps, which supports a segment-headed 5-light window with double transoms and a hoodmould. In the centre, there are two 3-light windows, and to the right, a tall 2-light window with double transoms sits above the porch. The basement features four segment-headed openings with 3-light flush mullioned openings and transoms. To the right, there is a hipped projection with a 3-light mullioned window, and in the basement, a segment-headed opening with flush mullions can be found.
The exterior is complemented by wavy-topped wrought-iron railings with openwork posts.
Local climate
Wesley House and Boundary Railings 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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