Cruicible Steel Shops on South East Side of Sandserson Kaysers Darnall Works
CRUICIBLE STEEL SHOPS ON SOUTH EAST SIDE OF SANDSERSON KAYSERS DARNALL WORKS, DARNALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247369
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cruicible Steel Shops on South East Side of Sandserson Kaysers Darnall Works
- Statutory Address:
- CRUICIBLE STEEL SHOPS ON SOUTH EAST SIDE OF SANDSERSON KAYSERS DARNALL WORKS, DARNALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247369
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cruicible Steel Shops on South East Side of Sandserson Kaysers Darnall Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRUICIBLE STEEL SHOPS ON SOUTH EAST SIDE OF SANDSERSON KAYSERS DARNALL WORKS, DARNALL ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- CRUICIBLE STEEL SHOPS ON SOUTH EAST SIDE OF SANDSERSON KAYSERS DARNALL WORKS, DARNALL ROAD
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 38496 88385
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE DARNALL ROAD 784-1/6/241 (South West side) 21/05/87 Crucible steel shops on south-east side of Sanderson Kayser's Darnall Works (Formerly Listed as: DARNALL ROAD, Attercliffe Former melting shop on E side of Sanderson Kayser's Darnall Works)
GV II*
5 crucible steel making shops, now stores. 1872. For Sanderson Brothers. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate and corrugated asbestos roofs. Single storey. 3:2:6:6:4 windows. Round headed openings with stone sills to mainly unglazed windows. 7 cross-ridge crucible stacks, each probably with 6 flues, and on the rear wall to Wilfrid Street, 2 smaller single stacks. Front elevation, to yard, has wooden cross casements, some with barred heads. 6 doorways enlarged and given steel or concrete lintels. Rear has similar blocked and boarded up windows. INTERIORS have crucible furnaces on either side, with iron brackets for crucible drying shelves and for tools. Strutted king post roof trusses. The Darnall Works site was developed initially in 1835. This range was added in 1872, increasing the works' capacity by 84 holes. Darnall Works was one of a number of large scale crucible steel works in Sheffield, but it is the last to survive and is unique in Britain. (Darnall Works 1835-1965: Sanderson Kayser Ltd.: 1965-; 400 years of iron and steel: Sanderson Kayser Magazine: 1969-1971; House of Saben Vol. 1, No 4, 1921 & Vol. 2 No 12, 1927).
Listing NGR: SK3849688385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sanderson Keyser Limited, , Darnall Works 1835-65, (1965)
House of Saben in House of Saben, Vol. 1, (1921)
House of Saben in House of Saben, Vol. 2, (1927)
Sanderson and Keyser Magazine in Sanderson and Keyser Magazine, (1969-71)
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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