Pluto Works
PLUTO WORKS, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247089
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Pluto Works
- Statutory Address:
- PLUTO WORKS, PRINCESS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247089
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Pluto Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLUTO WORKS, PRINCESS STREET
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:
- PLUTO WORKS, PRINCESS 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 37104 88856
Details
SK38NE
784-1/6/604
SHEFFIELD
PRINCESS STREET
(South East side)
Pluto Works
II
Crucible steel works, now garage, offices and workshops.
c1890, with late C20 alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings
and gabled and hipped slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: plinth, wooden gutter and brackets. 2 storeys; 10
window range. Buildings grouped around polygonal yard.
Main range, to Princess Street, has to left a workshop block
with canted corner. Tall round-arched cart entrance infilled
in lower part with round-arched glazing, flanked by 2 large
round-arched glazing bar windows. Above the right window, a
flat-headed 3-light casement.
Office range, to right, has 2 truncated gable and ridge
stacks. Triple plain sash to left, flanked to right by double
and single plain sashes. Beyond, 2 widely spaced single plain
sashes. Below, central late C20 door and overlight, flanked by
large shop windows with toplights, all with rendered and
painted surround. To left, a cart entrance with wooden lintel
and double board door. To right, 2 reglazed windows.
Left return, to East Coast Road, has to left the crucible shop
with an 8-flue crucible stack in the left gable and a similar
truncated stack in the right gable. 3 large casements, 2 of
them boarded. To right, late C20 entrance and gateway.
INTERIOR not inspected.
This building is an example of the numerous small crucible
steel works whose output complemented the bulk steel
production of the major firms.
(An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation
Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 28).
Listing NGR: SK3710488856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456264
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas in Sheffield, (1989), 28
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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