Rolling Mill
ROLLING MILL, LOW MATLOCK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132839
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Rolling Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ROLLING MILL, LOW MATLOCK LANE
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- Date:
- 1999-10-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/01031/08
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132839
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rolling Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROLLING MILL, LOW MATLOCK LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROLLING MILL, LOW MATLOCK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3095489427
Details
SK 38 NW
564/14/48
24.6.76
BRADFIELD
LOW MATLOCK LANE (South side), Little Matlock Rolling Mill
II*
Steel rolling mill. Dated 1882, rebuilt on existing foundation after flood of 1864. Coursed, squared gritstone, slate roof. Large rectangular building incorporated within later brick extensions. End gable has projecting quoins and round-headed window with keystone now obscured by lean-to roof. Central date plaque with band above. Right return: 3 sets of paired windows with square-faced surrounds and projecting sills, mostly unglazed. To right: a large overshot water wheel, now immobile, with 8 cast-iron spokes to each side and 42 buckets. Above it, a sectional cast-iron pentrough supported by a cast-iron stanchion. In the adjacent wall a blocked shouldered-lintel opening formerly allowed access to the wheel from inside the works. Wheel used until c1956. Dam and tail-race survive. Interior: massive flywheel now powered by electric motor. C19 4-stand in-line rolling mill still in use. The wheel is the largest example of its type to survive in Sheffield.
Listing NGR: SK3095489427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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