Shepherd Wheel and Attached Dam Goit and Weir
SHEPHERD WHEEL AND ATTACHED DAM GOIT AND WEIR, HANGINGWATER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1255068
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd Wheel and Attached Dam Goit and Weir
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERD WHEEL AND ATTACHED DAM GOIT AND WEIR, HANGINGWATER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1255068
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd Wheel and Attached Dam Goit and Weir
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERD WHEEL AND ATTACHED DAM GOIT AND WEIR, HANGINGWATER 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.
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:
- SHEPHERD WHEEL AND ATTACHED DAM GOIT AND WEIR, HANGINGWATER 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 31734 85396
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW HANGINGWATER ROAD 784-1/5/401 (East side) 28/06/73 Shepherd Wheel and attached dam, goit and weir (Formerly Listed as: HANGING WATER ROAD Shepherd's Wheel (with wall to dam and spillway))
II*
2 grinding hulls, now museum, and adjoining dam, goit and weir. c1780, restored c1960. Coursed squared stone with stone slate roof and single brick gable and single stone side wall stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 single storey ranges, 4 and 3 bays. Larger range, to left, has a single light window flanked by single 2-light windows, and to left, a 3-light window. All have glazing bars and plank shutters. Right gable has to left a plank door with stone lintel. Left gable has an external stair made of discarded grindstones. Smaller range, to right, has a central plank door and at the rear, three renewed 2-light barred windows with wooden mullions. At the rear, a renewed wooden pentrough feeding an iron overshot wheel approx 3m diameter. To west, dam with curved retaining wall approx 160m long, with a narrow spillway close to the buildings. At the west end, an early diversion weir under a road bridge, diverting water into a short head goit. INTERIOR has in the main hull a cast-iron spur wheel driving 5 grindstones, with a shaft and belt connection to 4 similar stones in the small hull. This machinery is complete and in working order. HISTORICAL NOTE: there has been a grinding hull on this site from c1584, and the existing buildings were in use from the late C18 till c1930 for the grinding of table and pocket knives. Shepherd's Wheel is an outstanding example of the single process small scale units which characterised the Sheffield cutlery industry. (Shepherd Wheel 1584-1984: Peatman J: Sheffield: 1984-; Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers: Crossley D: Sheffield: 1989-: 74).
Listing NGR: SK3173485396
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458649
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crossley, D, Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers, (1989), 74
Peatman, J, Shepherd Wheel 1584-1984, (1984)
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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