Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE MANOR LANE
784-1/6/496 (North side)
01/05/52 Turret House 150m west of Manor
House ruins
(Formerly Listed as:
MANOR LANE
Manor Lodge to Turret House)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Turret House, or Mary Stuart's House MANOR
LANE.
Pavilion. c1574, restored 1873 and late C20. Possibly by
Robert Smythe. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and lead
roof. 2 triple side wall stacks with lozenge-shaped shafts and
copings. At the north-east corner, a round stair turret with
lead dome and finial. Chamfered plinth, string courses,
crenellated parapet. 3 storeys; 2 window range. Square plan.
East front has in the centre 2 cross mullioned leaded windows
on each floor. On the ground floor, a blocked doorway to left
and a moulded Tudor arched doorway to right. Right return has
to left small windows to the stairway. Left return blank. Rear
has 2 cross mullioned windows on each floor.
INTERIOR has stone spiral stair. Ground and first floor rooms
have brick lined fireplaces with chamfered stone surrounds.
First-floor south room has strapwork plaster ceiling. Second
floor south room has a Tudor arched fireplace and overmantel
with coat of arms flanked by single columns. Strapwork frieze
and ceiling. North room has a simpler fireplace.
Reputedly built for the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots
who spent brief periods of imprisonment here between 1570 and
1584.
Manor Lodge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West
Riding: London: 1967-: 467-468; Mary Walton: The Prisons of
Mary Queen of Scots in Yorkshire & Derbyshire: Sheffield:
1958-).

Listing NGR: SK3749086481

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q7492699

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