Regent Court is a block of flats

Apartment

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 in the Hillsborough

Hillsborough, South Yorkshire

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 district of Sheffield

Sheffield

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, England

England

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The building was designed in 1936 by Edgar Gardham and completed in 1936. Funded privately, it was the largest housing complex in the city at the time, a similar smaller block also being built by Gardham on Duke Street.

Despite lying in a working class

Working class

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 area, the building boasted high specifications and rent

Renting

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s. With styling loosely inspired by modernism, it was arguably the first workers' housing of the modern movement in the UK, preceding the purer Kensal House in London

London

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 by a year.

The building is nine storeys high, with a central entrance leading to a communal lounge and three lift

Elevator

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s. In total, it comprises 202 balcony access flats, ranging from one to three bedroom

Bedroom

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s. Tennis court

Tennis court

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s were constructed in the grounds, but other advertised leisure facilities were never completed.

The block became run down in the late twentieth century before renovation in the 1990s.