Swallow Hotel / Kenwood 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.
The gardens of Kenwood were designed by Robert Marnock and is the largest surviving example in Sheffield of his work for private clients, as opposed to public parks. He was also involved in the landscaping and layout of the surrounding residential development carried out by Wolstenholme, whose family is remembered in many of the road names.
The garden has been reduced in size by housing development around the edges in the 1920s and 1930s, and by extensions to the hotel in 1975 and the early 1980's. However the core of the garden survives and the views from the house are largely intact.
There are balustraded terraces on the south and east sides of the house, with stone steps and urns. Beyond are lawns backed by evergreen shrubbery, substantial woodland belts and specimen trees (ginkgo, mulberry). The most attractive feature is the lake with an island and a perimeter walk through shrubs, mainly rhododendrons, and a rockery with grotesque carved figures. There is a kitchen garden with one glasshouse and the remains of two others. To the west of the house the coach house remains. Much of the stone boundary wall survives on Kenwood Road. There were entrances from Cherry Tree Road and Kenwood Road, both with drives flanked by evergreen shrubbery. The lodge to Cherry Tree Road is mid 19th century; that at Kenwood Road is late 19th century and Listed Grade II, with its gate piers and boundary wall.
Sheffield Directorate of Planning and Economic Development, 1997, Sheffield's Historic Parks and Gardens, 'Swallow Hotel' (Unpublished document).
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Date Listed
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Last Updated
14 Sep 2022
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