Baltic Works
BALTIC WORKS, EFFINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254592
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Baltic Works
- Statutory Address:
- BALTIC WORKS, EFFINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254592
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Baltic Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALTIC WORKS, EFFINGHAM ROAD
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.
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:
- BALTIC WORKS, EFFINGHAM 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:
- SK3734288247
Details
SK38NE
784-1/6/306
SHEFFIELD
EFFINGHAM ROAD
(South East side)
Baltic Works
II
Crucible steel works, now workshops. 1854, with later C19 and
early C20 additions, and late C20 alterations. Brick with
ashlar dressings and corrugated asbestos roofs, with single
brick ridge and gable stacks.
EXTERIOR: plinth and string course. 2 storeys; 47 window
range.
Off-centre entrance bay has the first floor divided by plain
pilasters, and 3 wooden framed Venetian windows. Below, a
segment-arched cart entrance with rusticated piers, voussoirs
and keystone, with a pair of board doors, flanked to left by a
segment-headed plain sash and to right by a door with moulded
segment-headed surround and overlight. Rusticated flanking
pilasters to ground floor.
The entrance bay is flanked to right by 8 round-arched glazing
bar windows with impost band, and to left by 2 similar
windows. Below, 3 segment-headed plain sashes to right and 2
to left.
Beyond, to right, an addition with flanking pilasters,
rusticated on the ground floor and topped with ball finials.
Low plain parapet. 3 altered glazing bar windows with concrete
lintels, and impost bands, set in recessed panels under
blocked relieving arches. Below, 4 reglazed windows with
round-arched rubbed brick heads.
To right, a bay with 2 windows on each floor, those to the
ground floor with round heads. To right again, a rounded
corner addition, early C20, with parapet and stepped flat
gable. 8 casements, and below, irregular fenestration. Right
return has 2-storey range of fireproof construction.
Beyond, to left, a 2 storey workshop with first floor band. 6
round-arched windows with transoms, and below, to left, a
segment-arched window. To its left, a slightly lower block
flanked by rusticated pilasters with string course and 4
round-arched openings with transoms. Beyond again, a single
storey workshop flanked by rusticated pilasters, with impost
band and 4 segment-arched windows set in recesses. Between
them, a granite and ashlar tablet recording the bombing of the
works in 1916. To left, 3 segment-headed windows, then a pair
of sliding doors. To their left, a small segment-arched
window, then 2 larger windows, all set in recesses. Beyond
again, a further single storey block with coped wall,
segment-arched blank openings and coped wall.
In the centre of the site, a workshop with lean-to roof and
crucible stack.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Baltic Works is an example of an integrated
works which included its own crucible steel making plant. The
crucible steel process was a highly significant metallurgical
advance, which transformed steelmaking techniques and paved
the way for the development of special and alloy steels.
(Sheffield Trades Historical Society recommendations: Bayliss
D; An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation
Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 24).
Listing NGR: SK3734288247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas in Sheffield, (1989), 24
Bayliss, D, Sheffield Trades Historical Society Recommendations in Sheffield Trades Historical Society, ()
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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