Sharrow Mills

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK3385NE ECCLESALL ROAD 784-1/36/280 (South side (off)) 28/06/73 Sharrow Mills

GV II*

Snuff mills. c1737, mid and late C18, early C19, with late C19 additions. Coursed squared stone and brick, partly rendered and colourwashed, with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped stone slate and Welsh slate roofs. Mill and tail water goit, manager's house, counting house, warehouse. EXTERIOR: mill, 1737, has steep pitched Welsh slate roof with a coped gable and a gable stack. West front has three 3-light glazing bar casements and below, 2 similar 2-light casements flanked to left by a single casement and to right by a much larger 3-light casement. Manager's house, to south, late C18, has hipped stone slate roof with a rear wall stack. Modillion wooden eaves. 2 storeys; 2 window range of 12 pane sashes with brick flat arches. To right, pedimented wooden doorcase with fielded 6-panel door and blank fanlight. Left return has two 12 pane sashes on each floor. Rear has a round-headed stair window and a 6-panel door. To right, projecting stone range containing boardroom, mid C18, stone slate roof and single brick gable stack. 2 storeys plus garrets. On each floor, two 3-light glazing bar casements and above, a similar smaller window to garret. Right return has a similar single window on each floor. To right, a lower link range with catslide roof. Single storey. C20 3-light casement and door. To right, 2 storey block, stone with Welsh slate roof, with 2 brick gable stacks. Single 2-light casement to left. Below, 2 smaller 2-light casements. Right return has a similar window and below, a large C18 4-panel door. Early C19 counting house, to right, brick with stone slate roof, has a single rear wall stack. 2 storeys; 2 window range. To right, a canted 2 storey bay window with a single plain sash above and 3 plain sashes below. To left, a single 12 pane sash on each floor, with brick flat arches and below, a central 6-panel door. Right return has a 4-light glazing bar casement on each floor, the upper one smaller. Set back rendered warehouse, to right, early C19, has hipped stone slate roof with single gable and 2 side wall brick stacks. 3 storeys; 3 window range. To left, C20 casements, 2 and 3 lights, and to right an altered 3-light casement. Above, two C20 3-light casements. Below, two C20 3-light casements. Rear has to left a brick addition c1880, single storey with 5 segment-headed openings. To its right a hoist tower, and beyond, a C18 wing, 3 windows, with large brick gable stack to the drying room furnace. INTERIOR has mid C19 overshot iron water wheel, approx 6m diameter. Below the wheel, a tail water goit culverted under the River Porter, approx 30m long. C18 cross armed spur wheel to main shaft, driving 8 pestle and mortar snuff mills on each of the upper floors. The mills are arranged on an octagonal wooden stand with framework carrying cast-iron cogs which take their drive from a central wooden spur wheel. Each cog turns a weighted cast-iron pestle by means of a slotted crank, and can be swung in its framework to disengage the drive. There are subsidiary drives to a hoist and rotating drum sieving and mixing machines, c1880, on the upper floors, and to a tobacco cutter in the basement. Strutted king post roof with double purlins. First floor and ground floor packing rooms have mid C19 built-in scales and wooden posts to span beams. At the rear, drying room with cast-iron furnace. Sharrow Snuff Mills is an outstandingly important water powered industrial complex. Its early C18 machinery is complete and in use. It is also unique. (David Crossley (ed): Water power on the Sheffield Rivers: Sheffield: 1989-: 81-82).

Listing NGR: SK3386185857

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

457183

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Crossley, D, Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers, (1989), 81-82

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.