The Sheaf Quay
The Sheaf Quay, 1, North Quay Drive, Sheffield, S4 7SW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246606
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Sheaf Quay
- Statutory Address:
- The Sheaf Quay, 1, North Quay Drive, Sheffield, S4 7SW
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246606
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Sheaf Quay
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Sheaf Quay, 1, North Quay Drive, Sheffield, S4 7SW
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:
- The Sheaf Quay, 1, North Quay Drive, Sheffield, S4 7SW
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 36195 87839
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 August 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
SK38NE
784-1/6/491
SHEFFIELD
NORTH QUAY DRIVE
No 1, The Sheaf Quay,
(Formerly Listed as Sheaf Works, MALTRAVERS STREET, previously listed as: MALTRAVERS STREET, Sheaf Works (front block only))
28/06/73
II
Cutlery works, now disused. 1823. Ashlar with hipped slate roof and two large ridge stacks. Classical Revival style. Plinth, first floor band and sillband, moulded eaves and
pediment, coped parapet. Three storeys; nine window range. Projecting centre, five windows, with pediment containing tablet inscribed "Sheaf Works". Windows are twelve pane sashes, the pair to right replaced by plain sashes, with moulded surrounds and cornices. Above, nine six pane sashes, two of them replaced by two-light casements. Ground floor has twelve pane sashes with eared architraves and cornices. Right return, three windows, has a projecting centre. Single twelve pane sash flanked by single tripartite sashes with scrolled pediments. Above, three six pane sashes with cornices. Below, doorcase with double columns, cornice and fanlight, flanked by single tripartite sashes with scrolled pediments. Rear has regular fenestration, with a clock in the pediment and three elliptical arched basement openings with keystones, now blocked.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This building is said to be the first designed for the factoryproduction of cutlery.
Listing NGR: SK3619587839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455546
- 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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