Queens Tower Historic Park & Garden
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Description
This Historic Park and Garden was identified and considered Locally Listed under the Sheffield UDP and UDP Policy BE21, which can be seen here: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-07/03-udp-built-environment.pdf . The supporting document, which contains the schedule of identified Historic Parks & Gardens, can be seen here: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/planning-and-development/sheffield-plan/Historic%20Parks%20%26%20Gardens.pdf. As a result, the park and all its associated features has been included in the current Local Heritage List for South Yorkshire.
Queen's Tower was built between 1834 and 1837 by Samuel Roberts. The grounds were designed by Robert Marnock in a style reflecting the design of the house, with battlemented terraces and lawns, a small lake and sinuous pathways through plantings of beech and evergreens. There was a large walled garden, with castellated stone walls and a turret with an ornate weathervane.
The house was used by the Army during World War II but fell into disrepair afterwards. It was bought by a sport and leisure company who roofed over the walled garden to form a squash court. The lake and sunken garden have gone and areas of car parking created but much of the perimeter planting remains and the extent if the garden is unchanged. Both buildings and grounds are in a poor state of repair but they are important as the setting for a Listed building and as a particularly large and impressive design for a private garden by Marnock.
Sheffield Directorate of Planning and Economic Development, 1997, Sheffield's Historic Parks and Gardens, 'Queens Tower' (Unpublished document).
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Date Listed
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Last Updated
07 Sep 2022
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