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 (cutler), Samuel Roberts, a local cutlery, cutler, as a tribute to Mary, Queen of Scots, and completed in 1839.
[Ruth Harman and John Minnis, ''Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield'']
The two-storey building is in a neo-Tudor architecture, Tudor style, with battlements and several Turret (architecture), turrets. Its grounds were designed by Robert Marnock and incorporated walls and a window from Manor Lodge, where Mary had been imprisoned.
On completion, Roberts gave the Tower to his son as a wedding present. He enlarged the structure in the 1860s.
His descendants, who lived in the Tower for several generations, included Sir Samuel Roberts, 1st Baronet, Samuel Roberts, the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Ecclesall (UK Parliament constituency), Sheffield Ecclesall, and his son, also Sir Samuel Roberts, 2nd Baronet, Samuel Roberts, and also a politician.
[Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, ''Who's Who of British MPs: Volume III, 1919-1945'']
The Tower was converted to apartments, flats in 2004.
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Houses in Sheffield
Houses completed in 1839
Grade II listed buildings in Sheffield