Sheffield - Botanical Gardens
GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1247257
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3386SW CLARKEHOUSE ROAD 784-1/32/195 (South East side) 01/05/52 Gateway to Botanical Gardens, with lodges, screen wall and railing
GV II
Gateway with lodges, screen wall and railing. c1836 and late C19, restored 1990. Probably by BB Taylor. Ashlar with stone slate roofs. 2 stone side wall stacks. Classical style. Plinth, corner pilasters, cornices, blocking courses. Round-arched barrel vaulted entrance with keystone, flanked on each side by a pair of giant Ionic columns, the frieze inscribed "Botanical Gardens", the entablature crowned by modelled blocking course. Under the arch, ornamental cast-iron gates, and a corniced half-glazed door on each side. On either side, blank rear walls of the lodges. Fronts have 2 windows. Concave curved flanking wall on each side, with square piers, entablature and blocking course. Beyond, to right, a scrolled wrought-iron railing on chamfered plinth, approx 200m long. At the south-west corner, a wrought-iron caged turnstile. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 465).
Listing NGR: SK3348886378
Sheffield - Botanical Gardens
GATEWAY TO BOTANICAL GARDENS WITH LODGES SCREEN WALL AND RAILINGS, CLARKEHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1247257
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK3386SW CLARKEHOUSE ROAD 784-1/32/195 (South East side) 01/05/52 Gateway to Botanical Gardens, with lodges, screen wall and railing
GV II
Gateway with lodges, screen wall and railing. c1836 and late C19, restored 1990. Probably by BB Taylor. Ashlar with stone slate roofs. 2 stone side wall stacks. Classical style. Plinth, corner pilasters, cornices, blocking courses. Round-arched barrel vaulted entrance with keystone, flanked on each side by a pair of giant Ionic columns, the frieze inscribed "Botanical Gardens", the entablature crowned by modelled blocking course. Under the arch, ornamental cast-iron gates, and a corniced half-glazed door on each side. On either side, blank rear walls of the lodges. Fronts have 2 windows. Concave curved flanking wall on each side, with square piers, entablature and blocking course. Beyond, to right, a scrolled wrought-iron railing on chamfered plinth, approx 200m long. At the south-west corner, a wrought-iron caged turnstile. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 465).
Listing NGR: SK3348886378