Crucible Steel Shop in South Corner of Sandersons Kaysers Darnall Works
CRUCIBLE STEEL SHOP IN SOUTH CORNER OF SANDERSONS KAYSERS DARNALL WORKS, DARNALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1247446
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- Statutory Address:
- CRUCIBLE STEEL SHOP IN SOUTH CORNER OF SANDERSONS KAYSERS DARNALL WORKS, DARNALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1247446
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRUCIBLE STEEL SHOP IN SOUTH CORNER OF SANDERSONS KAYSERS DARNALL WORKS, DARNALL ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CRUCIBLE STEEL SHOP IN SOUTH CORNER OF SANDERSONS 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 38472 88374
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE DARNALL ROAD 784-1/6/240 (South West side) 21/05/87 Crucible steel shop in south corner of Sanderson Kayser's Darnall Works (Formerly Listed as: DARNALL ROAD, Attercliffe Large melting shop in southern corner of S K Darnall Works)
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Crucible steel making shop. 1871. For Sanderson Brothers. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof to north-east and asbestos cement to south-west. Rebated eaves, coped gables with inturned kneelers. EXTERIOR: single storey. 6 internal bays. Round headed openings with stone sills to unglazed windows. South east elevation, to yard, has a tall central doorway with unglazed fanlight, flanked by 2 window and beyond by single tall doorways. Above, 6 truncated crucible stacks, each with 4 flues. Right gable has 3 windows, the central one larger, partly boarded up. Below, a tall central doorway flanked by single smaller windows. Left gable, partly covered by adjoining crucible shops, has the top of a round-arched opening. Rear has blocked openings. INTERIOR has a strutted queen post timber roof with king posts above the collars. On either side, 6 sets of melting holes arranged in groups of 4. The stacks are unusual in being set back from the outside walls, leaving a passage behind them. Iron brackets on them held shelves for drying and storing crucibles. Furnace and flues remain in south-west corner. Crucible cellars are inaccessible. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Darnall Works site was initially developed in 1835, and this building was added in 1871-2 at a cost of »6000. It worked for about 50 years, being reopened during the Second World War before finally closing in 1943. It was designed on a large scale to allow large articles to be cast by the continuous teeming method, in spite of the small amount of steel produced in each crucible. Darnall works was one of a number of large scale crucible steel works in Sheffield, but is now the last surviving and is unique in Britain. Disused at time of survey. (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; House of Saben: 2: Sheffield: 1927-).
Listing NGR: SK3847288374
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 456802
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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)
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