Mobilization Store And Squash Court To Former Hillsborough Barracks

SK 38 NW SHEFFIELD LANGSETT ROAD (North East side) 784-1/5/469 Mobilization store and squash court to former Hillsborough Barracks 12.12.95

GV II

Mobilization store, now offices, and adjoining squash court and retaining wall. 1848-54, used as industrial workshops mid C20, converted 1990. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof with 2 coped ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: Plinth, first floor sillband, half-round eaves, coped parapets. 2 storeys; 9 window range. Windows mainly unglazed and boarded at time of survey. Recessed centre has 5 windows, and below, central segmental pointed doorway with voussoirs, flanked by 2 windows. Slightly projecting end bays have 2 windows on each floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Adjoining roofless racquets court has blank enclosing walls with half-round coping. At the front, a section of curved retaining wall with half-round coping, approx 25m long. HISTORY : Ball courts were common recreational components of nineteenth century barracks. Part of a c9mplete mid C19 barracks. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 472; Skeleton record plan of ground floor: 1907 -1923).

Listing NGR: SK3372689490