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Hermes Care have submitted a full planning application to convert a Grade II* listed building in Sheffield into a care village. Insider Media reports that the mansion house, Mount Pleasant, has been vacant for several years, after the relocation of Highfield School in 2006. The site is off Sharrow Lane, near London Road.
Under the plans, the Mount Pleasant building would be converted into residential care spaces, and a new 39-bed care home would be built in the grounds of the former school. In addition, some of the existing buildings would be converted and partially demolished to create further facilities and a day centre.
A design and access statement submitted as part of the application said: “The proposed Care Village, including supported, assisted and full 24-hour specialist care, would mirror that of a traditional care home and will provide care packages appropriate to the needs of the individual resident and that can be accessed in conjunction with the on-site care home.”
It continued: “The proposals are based on meeting current (and future) standards of care home development and the changing requirements of individuals accessing care facilities. These standards and requirements are at odds with the needs of the grade II*-listed building and so new-build, specialist facilities are proposed.”
The original Mount Pleasant building was constructed in 1777, and at one time it was surrounded by farmland, with stables and a coach house. The charity Shipshape Health and Wellbeing centre occupy the renovated Grade II* listed stable block, and there are no plans for them to move out at the current time.
The architect was John Platt, and the house was designed for the Sitwells, a prominent local family who owned land in Derbyshire, and a large ironworks at Eckington. They owned the house for less than 20 years, and it has passed through several different uses since then, including a hospital, an asylum, a government war department, and a girls’ school.
Nadim Admani of Hermes Care told the Sheffield Star: “It will look beautiful when it’s done, it will be back to its original splendour. It will be a proud development that people will see and think ‘wow!’ I hope it will be looked at and loved.”
He added: “We want to open the grounds up for the community and create a beautiful park and garden and create accommodation for key workers there as well.”
Hermes Care have worked with Axis Architecture to come up with new designs for the building. The plans have been submitted to Sheffield City Council for approval.
Axis Architecture have recently worked on the conversion of another listed building in Sheffield, The Mount in the Broomhill area of the city. The Grade II* listed building was constructed in the 1830s, and was awarded listed status due to the high quality of its architecture.
There are now plans to convert it into 55 apartments, which will be a mixture of one, two and three bedrooms, plus a single storey rooftop extension.
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