Queen's Tower, Sheffield

Queen's Tower is a house in Sheffield, lying on Park Grange Road in the Norfolk Park area of the city. It was designed by Woodhead & Hurst for Samuel Roberts, a local cutler, as a tribute to Mary, Queen of Scots, and completed in 1839.^[1]

Entrance to Queen's Tower. The main house is to the right, the former stable block to the left.

The two-storey building is in a Tudor style, with battlements and several turrets. Its grounds were designed by Robert Marnock and incorporated walls and a window from Manor Lodge, where Mary had been imprisoned.^[1]

On completion, Roberts gave the Tower to his son as a wedding present. He enlarged the structure in the 1860s.^[1] His descendants, who lived in the Tower for several generations, included Samuel Roberts, the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Ecclesall, and his son, also Samuel Roberts, and also a politician.^[2]

The Tower was converted to flats in 2004.^[1]