Upperthorpe Public Library

SHEFFIELD

SK3488SW UPPERTHORPE 784-1/13/726 (North West side) Upperthorpe Public Library

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Includes: No.5 DANIEL HILL. Public library. 1876, with late C20 alterations. By E Mitchell Gibbs. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with decorative crest, coped gables and finials. Truncated square roof ventilator. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: plinth, sillbands, first floor band, modillion eaves, coped parapet. 2 storeys; 6 window range. Central square tower porch with hipped roof has on the first floor 2 round-arched 2-light windows with moulded arches and roundels in the heads. Below them, a stone balcony on brackets, with roundel-pierced balustrade. Moulded round-arched ashlar doorcase with coat of arms in tympanum, and above, lintel inscribed "Free Public Library Upperthorpe Branch". Late C20 glazed double doors, steps and ramp. Each return has a round-arched 2-light window above, and a stone mullioned cross casement below. Side bays have each 2 round-arched double lancets with moulded heads and roundels, and linked hoodmould. Below, 2 stone mullioned cross casements. Right gable has on the first floor a canted stone oriel window with hipped roof and modillion cornice. 2-light round-arched window flanked by similar single windows, each with a roundel above it. Beyond, single light round-arched windows with square panels above them containing roundels, all with linked label moulds. Above, a 2-light stone mullioned opening with louvres. Below, a segment-headed cross casement, flanked by integral brackets to the oriel. On either side, a single light flat-headed window with transom. To right, a plainer range, 2 storeys, with off-centre 3 storey gable and 7 unequally spaced windows. INTERIOR not inspected. The design is almost identical to Highfield Public Library, London Road (qv), also by E Mitchell Gibbs. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3420188283