Entrance Gateway to Green Lane Works
ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO GREEN LANE WORKS, GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1255044
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Green Lane Works
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO GREEN LANE WORKS, GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1255044
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Green Lane Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO GREEN LANE WORKS, GREEN LANE
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:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO GREEN LANE WORKS, GREEN LANE
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:
- SK3501588200
Details
SK3588SW
784-1/15/393
01/05/52
SHEFFIELD
GREEN LANE
(North side)
Entrance gateway to Green Lane Works
II*
Works entrance. Dated 1860. Built for Henry Hoole. Restored
and refronted 1985. Ashlar, stucco and brick, with gabled and
hipped slate roof with single gable stack.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 8 bays. Entrance, in the form of a
tripartite triumphal arch, has quoins, impost band and
dentilled cornice. Projecting centre has dentilled pediment
and frieze inscribed "Green Lane Works". Round-arched entrance
with rusticated base and voussoirs and mask keystone. Narrow
wings have framed bronze relief panels of Industry and Art,
possibly by Alfred Stevens, who was employed by the firm in
1850-52. Below, single round-headed doorways. On either side,
a blank stucco bay and beyond, blank brick bays, 1985. Under
the archway, a pair of tall board doors. Above, a square
cupola with diagonal buttresses, and console brackets to the
corniced clock stage, topped with a round-arched square
lantern with square dome and weather vane. Plainer rear
elevation has pediment with bust in roundel and the
inscription "Established AD 1795. Rebuilt by Henry E Hoole
1860". Rusticated gateway. To left, a stucco wing with first
floor sillband. Five 12 pane sashes and a tripartite sash.
Above, 8 late C20 windows.
INTERIOR not inspected.
From c1851-1930, this works was used for making cast-iron
fireplaces, and from 1940-48 for making razor blades.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West
Riding: London: 1967-: 470; Information board in company
office).
Listing NGR: SK3501588200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458629
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 470
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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