Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth and Sons Siemens Department
Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth and Sons Siemens Department, Savile Street East
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247193
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth and Sons Siemens Department
- Statutory Address:
- Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth and Sons Siemens Department, Savile Street East
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247193
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth and Sons Siemens Department
- Statutory Address 1:
- Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth and Sons Siemens Department, Savile Street East
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:
- Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth and Sons Siemens Department, Savile Street East
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:
- SK3690288704
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 October 2022 to correct a typo in the name and address
SK38NE
784-1/6/644
SHEFFIELD
SAVILE STREET EAST (North West side)
Entrance gateway to Thomas Firth & Sons Siemens Dept
25/03/86
II
Entrance gateway to former steelworks. c1900. Rusticated ashlar. Plinth and flat coping. Carriage arch with segmental head and multiple keystones, with a doorway below. On either side, a recessed panel with keystone lintel, and above a window. All openings now filled with C20 railings. Below the coping is the inscription " Thos Firth & Sons Ltd Siemens Dept". This was the entrance to the Norfolk (steel) Melting Shop of this famous company. The name refers to the use of the Siemens open-hearth process, which was by 1900 the usual method of making steel in bulk. Sheffield's large scale steel industry was largely relocated in this area from the mid C19 onwards.
(Derry TK & William TI: A Short History of Technology: Oxford: 1960-: 484).
Listing NGR: SK3690288704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456481
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Derry, T K, William, T I, A Short History of Technology, (1960), 484
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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