Former Joseph Tyzack and Company Meersbrook Saw Works

FORMER JOSEPH TYZACK AND COMPANY MEERSBROOK SAW WORKS, 19 AND 21, VALLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247458
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
Former Joseph Tyzack and Company Meersbrook Saw Works
Statutory Address:
FORMER JOSEPH TYZACK AND COMPANY MEERSBROOK SAW WORKS, 19 AND 21, VALLEY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247458
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
Former Joseph Tyzack and Company Meersbrook Saw Works
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER JOSEPH TYZACK AND COMPANY MEERSBROOK SAW WORKS, 19 AND 21, VALLEY ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER JOSEPH TYZACK AND COMPANY MEERSBROOK SAW WORKS, 19 AND 21, VALLEY 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 35127 84631

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38SE VALLEY ROAD 784-1/10/731 (North East side) Nos.19 AND 21 Former Joseph Tyzack & Co. Meersbrook Saw Works

II

Saw works, offices and salerooms, now workshops. c1880, with early and late C20 alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings and slate roofs with single gable and 2 ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands to each floor, eaves band, wooden gutter. 3 storeys; 21 window range. L-plan. Pilaster strips between the windows, with square recessed panels with brick corbelled heads below each window on the upper floors. Central double entrance bay has flanking pilasters with faceted projections on the first floor. Open pediment with roundel containing the firm's trademark in relief. On the upper floors, 2 plain sashes. Below, segment-arched cart entrance with rusticated piers and voussoirs and lintel above inscribed with the firm's name. To left, 9 glazing bar casements on the upper floors. Ground floor has a late C20 off-centre door flanked by 4 similar casements to left and 3 to right. Beyond, to right, a door with side and top lights. To right, 6 plain sashes, then a canted wooden oriel window with cornice. Beyond, 2 plain sashes and a blank. Above, 10 smaller plain sashes. Below, a blank flanked to left by 2 sashes and to right by 3 sashes, all with altered glazing. To right, below the oriel window, a moulded stone doorcase with flat hood, panelled door and overlight. To its right, 2 single pane windows and a door with overlight, all late C20. At the rear, a parallel range, early C20, concrete framed with brick infill and continuous windows. C19 left wing, fronting courtyard, 3 storeys; 8 window range, with irregular fenestration. INTERIOR not inspected. Joseph Tyzack & Co. were leading saw manufacturers until the mid C20.

Listing NGR: SK3512784631

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Legacy System number:
456938
Legacy System:
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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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