MURRAY BUILDING

MURRAY BUILDING, BOSTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096055
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: MURRAY BUILDING
Statutory Address:: MURRAY BUILDING, BOSTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096055
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: MURRAY BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: MURRAY BUILDING, BOSTON STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MURRAY BUILDING, BOSTON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 35047 86254

Details

SHEFFIELD

784-1/0/10118 BOSTON STREET 15-APR-03 Murray Building

II

Metal trades factory, formerly truss works, now surgical instrument manufactory. Late C19/early C20. Red brick with slate roofs, red brick stacks. PLAN: Rectangular courtyard plan, enclosed by ranges to north (Boston Street), east (Arley Street) and west. EXTERIOR: Front range to Boston Street 3 storeys, 9 bays wide. Gable end stack to west. Wider central bay contains cart entrance flanked by stone base blocks, plain painted timber architrave and cornice above with lead flashing, pair of solid plain painted timber doors. Windows above, to central bay, tripartite divided by plain stone mullions, plain stone lintels above. Other windows, diminishing in size from ground to 2nd floor, 12-pane timber sashes with segmental brick heads and stone cills. One 2nd floor window blind. East gable end to Arley Street has similar window openings. Doorway to left with modern blocking and smaller windows above. West gable end has single-light first-floor window with plain stone lintel and brick cill. 2-storey range to south (along Arley Street) has 5 workshop bays, with pitched roof, twin ridge stack and truncated stack at north end junction with Boston Street range. Windows as Boston street block, with segmental heads, stone cills and 12-pane sashes, apart from the southernmost bay which has 2 narrow single-light openings with segmental heads. To south of workshops, the range continues (and the final bay returns, with gable end to street) as independently-accessed house, possibly caretaker's residence, of 2 and (within gabled bay) 3 storeys. Gable end stack to south. Doorway, central to house, has square chamfered stone lintel and overlight. 4-panelled door. Windows bipartite to ground floor, bipartite and single light to first floor. Plain stone mullions, chamfered stone lintels and cills. Plate glass sashes. Smaller window opening beneath eaves has similar lintel and timber casements, 3-light casement window to attic with plain rendered lintel. South gable end, painted brickwork, has full-length high-level opening. Western range: 2 storeys, probably rebuilt. Irregular, plain window openings with rendered lintels and C20 casements. Roof has iron vents and C20 flat-roofed single bay attic block. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Former truss works, subsequently premises of Joseph Gray & Sons, surgical instrument manufacturers. A relatively unaltered example of a traditional Sheffield metal trade works building, complete with integral dwelling house.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 490021
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.