Bernard Cottage, Sheffield

Application to knock down an office block, which includes a historic villa in Sheffield:

Shown on the town plans series of historic maps that were drawn up between 1840 and 1860, this Victorian villa has been incorporated into a more modern office development to the south of Sheffield City Centre, and is now the subject of an application to clear the site.

The stone mullions and tall ornate diamond chimney pair suggest the building is much older than the date of the map, and was erected well before the area was a highway dominated fringe of the city centre.

Shame to see it lost to progress. The chimneys in particular show a lost art in stone masonry unlikely to ever be repeated.

The building named as Bernard Cottage on the 1840-60 map