"Following a large donation by Thomas Jessop, a wealthy steelworks-owner, a new building was commissioned to replace the old Sheffield Hospital for Women at Figtree Lane, which had only six beds.
The new facility was designed by John Dodsley Webster in the Gothic Revival style. The building cost £26,000 - a lot of money at the time - all paid for by Jessop. It opened as the Jessop Hospital for Women in 1878. An extension, known as the Edwardian wing, was completed in 1902. Between 1927 and 1972 the hospital had a 45 bed annexe at Norton Hall known as the Firth Auxiliary Hospital.
The hospital was in the news in 1998 when Diane Blood gave birth to a baby boy, having been inseminated using her husband's sperm, which had been taken from his body while he was unconscious on life support, shortly before his death. A prolonged legal case gave her the right to do this, despite not having the written consent of her husband.
After services transferred to the Jessop Wing of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, the hospital closed in 2001.
In 2007 the majority of the 1970s wing was demolished by the University of Sheffield as part of their Jessop West development. The Victorian Wing of the original hospital was converted to house the Department of Music, who occupied it in 2009.
Despite being a Grade II listed building, demolition of the Edwardian wing started on 30 July 2013. Demolition was pursued in favour of renovation as it provided the University of Sheffield with a greater floor area for new development at a lower cost."
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The building is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building and its listing gives details of its architecture.
"Womens' hospital. 1878, by John Dodsley Webster. For Thomas Jessop. Addition to west 1902, in a sympathetic style. Gothic Revival style. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with various coped brick stacks. L-plan. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands, machicolated eaves, coped gables. 3 storeys; 8 window range. Windows are mainly transomed or cross mullioned, with stone mullions. Entrance front has central range, 5 windows, flanked by gabled wings. Slightly projecting central entrance bay topped by a single stage tower with cornice and plain parapet, and 2 single lancet openings on each side, with hoodmoulds. On the first floor, 3 cross casements flanked by single light windows. Above, similar fenestration, with an ogee crest to the central window. Below, round-arched entrance with double doors, inscribed lintel, label mould and crest. On either side, a cross casement, then a single light window, with label moulds and crests. Left gable has a cross casement and above, a taller cross casement with traceried ogee head and finial. Below, a square bay window with 3-light cross casement. Right gable has 2 cross casements and above, 2 similar windows with traceried ogee heads and between them, a roundel. Below, two 3-light cross casements with label moulds and finials. Right return, 3 windows, has a central projecting gabled bay and to left, a 2 storey square oriel window at the corner, topped with a pyramidal spire. Left return has 2 canted 3 storey bay windows, the left one with a large C20 flat-roofed bay window. West front has to right an entrance block, 3 storeys plus attics, with 2 windows in the centre flanked by gabled wings. On the ground floor, a single storey central porch with parapet. To left, a lower block with coped parapet and central projecting bay with 3 storey canted bay window topped with a balustrade. On either side, 2 windows. At the left corner, a 2 storey square oriel window topped with a pyramidal spire. Left return has a canted 3 storey bay window to left, topped with a balustrade, and 2 windows to right. INTERIOR not inspected."
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