Atlas Works Offices
ATLAS WORKS OFFICES, SAVILE STREET EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247336
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Atlas Works Offices
- Statutory Address:
- ATLAS WORKS OFFICES, SAVILE STREET EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247336
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Atlas Works Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- ATLAS WORKS OFFICES, 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:
- ATLAS WORKS OFFICES, 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:
- SK3693188731
Details
SK38NE
784-1/6/645
14/09/92
SHEFFIELD
SAVILE STREET EAST
(North West side)
Atlas Works Offices
GV
II
Formerly known as: Queen's Works offices SAVILE STREET EAST.
Steel works offices. 1853, with mid C20 alterations. Partly
demolished and refurbished late C20. For Armitage, Frankish &
Barker, steel manufacturers. Brick with ashlar dressings and
gabled and hipped slate roofs with various stacks.
EXTERIOR: plinth, first-floor band, moulded wooden gutter and
eaves band with modillions. 2 storeys; 20 window range.
To left, a narrow bay with a single plain sash on each floor.
To right, a single bay with coped parapet and a round-arched
plain sash. To right again, 4 similar round-arched windows
flanked by brick pilasters. To right, a segment-headed war
memorial panel and a segment-headed glazing bar window.
To right again, main range, 2 storeys, with 18 glazing bar
sashes on the first floor and 18 segment-headed windows below,
all with wooden frames.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the Queen's Works, these buildings
were bought in 1856 by John Brown and renamed the Atlas Works.
They formed part of Firth-Brown industrial group, which
pioneered the manufacture of cheap bulk steel in Britain, and
manufactured steel rails and armour plate.
Building vacant at time of survey.
(An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation
Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 25; Recc. from Trades
Historical Society).
Listing NGR: SK3693188731
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456480
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas in Sheffield, (1989), 25
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27662
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249465
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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