Workshop Ranges, Including Crucible Furnace Attched to Number 54

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SHEFFIELD

SK3487NE WELL MEADOW STREET 784-1/18/746 (North side) 13/06/88 No.54 and attached workshop ranges, including crucible furnace

GV II

Workshops, attached houses and crucible furnace. c1860, with later C19 and early C20 alterations and additions. Brick with stone dressings and slate roofs with single side wall and single ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: street front has main block to right, 2 storeys; 4 window range. Gutter on wooden brackets. To left, a plain sash, and to its right at a higher level, a similar sash, both with multi-keystone lintels. To right, a plain sash and a tripartite sash, with inserted steel lintel. Below, to left, a door with overlight, flanked to right by 2 plain sashes, the right one partly blocked, all with multi-keystone lintels. To right again, a cart entrance with a pair of board doors and wooden lintel. To right again, a single storey lean-to addition with a segment-headed window. To left, 3 single window blocks, 2 storeys, stepped downwards from the left. Dentilled eaves. 3 plain sashes. Below, to left, steps to a C20 door with overlight and pilastered wooden doorcase. To right, a door and a multipane workshop window under a common steel lintel, then a 12 pane sash with multi-keystone lintel. Rear elevation has, to left, a 2 storey addition, 3 window range, with canted right corner and external side wall stack. Three 12 pane sashes and below, to right, cart opening with wooden lintel. To right again, a 12 pane sash and below it, a blocked segment-headed opening with a 2-light casement inserted. To right again, 3 C20 casements of various sizes and below, a 5-light window with concrete lintel, then a 2-light window and a door, then a 3-light window. At the rear, workshop blocks around a partly setted courtyard. To left, 2 storey forge with side wall stack. Two 3-light casements and below, a segmental arch containing a door and a window, and to left a segment-headed window. INTERIOR has brick forge and cutler's smithy. At the rear, to right, a 2 storey crucible furnace with side wall crucible stack with 5 flues. Projecting left portion has catslide roof and steps to a round-arched doorway with plain fanlight, flanked to right by a round-arched window with blocked coal chute below. To right, a set back bay at an angle with a segment-headed 3-light casement on each floor. INTERIOR has 5 blocked crucible holes and iron shelf brackets. Moulded stone corbel to roof truss. To left, a single storey lean-to building with an unglazed casement window, containing remains of polishing machinery. To left again, a late C19 single storey workshop projecting across the yard. East side has to right a doorway with canopy, flanked to left by a large 3-light glazing bar casement, and a smaller 2 light casement. To left, 4 continuous 3-light casements. Rear has 2 similar casements. INTERIOR has remains of line shafting and a round cast-iron column. Linking the crucible furnace to the forge, a brick boundary wall with renewed brick coping and remains of lean-to sheds. On the right side of the yard, an early C20 workshop, brick with corrugated asbestos roof. Single storey. To left, two 3-light casements. To right, a blocked doorway with wooden lintel, then a 12 pane window. This building is a good example of the small scale integrated steel and cutlery works based on the crucible steel process, and characteristic of Sheffield.

Listing NGR: SK3464687780

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