Mobilization Store and Squash Court to Former Hillsborough Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. Mobilization store, squash court.

Mobilization Store and Squash Court to Former Hillsborough Barracks

WRENN ID
sombre-bonework-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP: Gill Furniss (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1995
Type
Mobilization store, squash court
Address
Mobilization Store and Squash Court to Former Hillsborough Barracks, Langsett Road
OS grid reference
SK 337 894
Coordinates
53.40118, -1.49422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mobilization Store and Squash Court, originally part of the former Hillsborough Barracks, was built between 1848 and 1854. It has since been converted into offices. The structure is made of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof with two coped ridge stacks.

The exterior includes a plinth, a first-floor sill band, half-round eaves, and coped parapets. The building is two storeys high with a nine-window range. At the time of the survey, the windows were mainly unglazed and boarded. The recessed center has five windows, with a central segmental pointed doorway featuring voussoirs, flanked by two windows. The slightly projecting end bays each have two windows on both floors.

The adjoining squash court is roofless and has blank enclosing walls with half-round coping. In front of the squash court is a section of curved retaining wall, approximately 25 meters long, also with half-round coping. Historically, ball courts were a common recreational feature in 19th-century barracks, and this building is part of a complete mid-19th-century barracks complex.

Local climate

Mobilization Store and Squash Court to Former Hillsborough Barracks 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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