FIRTHS NORFOLK WEST GUN SHOP

FIRTHS NORFOLK WEST GUN SHOP, SAVILLE STREET EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247346
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: FIRTHS NORFOLK WEST GUN SHOP
Statutory Address:: FIRTHS NORFOLK WEST GUN SHOP, SAVILLE STREET EAST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247346
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: FIRTHS NORFOLK WEST GUN SHOP
Statutory Address 1:: FIRTHS NORFOLK WEST GUN SHOP, SAVILLE STREET EAST

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FIRTHS NORFOLK WEST GUN SHOP, SAVILLE STREET EAST

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District:: Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 37047 88869

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE SAVILE STREET EAST 784-1/6/647 (North West side) 13/06/88 Firth's Norfolk, West Gun Shop

II

Gun works and adjoining workshops and offices. Late C19, with late C19 and C20 alterations. Probably commissioned by John Firth (son of Thomas Firth) for Thomas Firth & Sons. Brick with stone dressings and slate and corrugated iron roofs. EXTERIOR: plinth and eaves band. 2-storey ranges fronting Savile Street (29 bays), a rounded corner (8 bays), and a 3 storey range fronting Carwood Road (7 bays). Savile Street front has to left a 9 window range with a canted stone oriel window flanked to left by 2 margin light sashes and to right by 6 plain sashes. Below, a carriage entrance flanked by single doors with overlights. To left 2, and to right 3 glazing bar sashes. To the right, 5 recesses defined by pilasters, the 2 recesses to the right with round heads. 5 triple glazing bar sashes and below, five C20 steel casements. To right again, 5 blank lunettes and below, 15 round-headed windows with C19 and C20 triple tilting casements, that to the left converted to a fire door. Rounded corner has 8 segment-headed triple tilting casements on each floor. Carwood Road front has 7 similar casements and above, a coped gable containing a Diocletian window. Below, a tilting casement and a blank, flanked to left by 4 restored windows, and a fire door. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Gun Shop was constructed specifically for the forging of heavy artillery barrels and housed two 25-ton steam hammers (exceptionally large and powerful for the period). By the mid 1870s, Firth's had established itself as the foremost gun forgers in the world, and many record forgings were made in the shop. (Newbould H: The History of Firth's: 1924-; 100 Years of Steel: 1937-; Grant A Sir: Steel and Ships: 1950-).

Listing NGR: SK3704788869

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Legacy System number:: 456482
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
One Hundred Years of Steel, (1937)
Grant, A, Steel and Ships, (1950)
Newbould, H , The History of Firths, (1924)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.