CANALSIDE WAREHOUSE OF GS DILLEY AND SONS

CANALSIDE WAREHOUSE OF GS DILLEY AND SONS, EFFINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270724
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: CANALSIDE WAREHOUSE OF GS DILLEY AND SONS
Statutory Address:: CANALSIDE WAREHOUSE OF GS DILLEY AND SONS, EFFINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270724
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: CANALSIDE WAREHOUSE OF GS DILLEY AND SONS
Statutory Address 1:: CANALSIDE WAREHOUSE OF GS DILLEY AND SONS, EFFINGHAM ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CANALSIDE WAREHOUSE OF GS DILLEY AND SONS, 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:: SK 37026 88011

Details

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE EFFINGHAM ROAD 784-1/6/307 (South East side) 13/06/88 Canalside warehouse of GS Dilley & Sons

II

Iron warehouse. Mid C19, with later C19 additions. Built for the Firth family, steel makers. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled C20 corrugated iron roofs. L-plan, with taller gabled warehouse end-on to the canal and lower warehouse with hipped 2-span roof parallel to the canal to its right. EXTERIOR: canal side has continuous ashlar plinth. Gable to left has a blocked elliptical arched goods entrance with rusticated head and voussoirs. In the opposite gable, a blocked round-arched opening above, and an enlarged entrance below, with timber lintel. Range to right is open to roof but has 2 storeys of openings. Above, a central segment-headed window flanked by single flatter arched windows and beyond, single larger windows. All are bricked up. Below, 2 goods entrances, the left segment-headed, the right with girder lintel, and to left, a window. All are bricked up. Rear has central full-height segment-headed doorway with flanking buttresses, flanked by 2 round-headed windows, the left ones blocked and the right ones partly blocked. INTERIOR has king post truss roof, and narrow gauge rail track. The warehouses were used for the storage of bar iron from Sweden before it was processed in the cementation and crucible works. It is said to be the sole survivor of this type of warehouse in Sheffield. (An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 19; Barraclough K: Sheffield Steel: PLATES 23 & 24).

Listing NGR: SK3702688011

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Legacy System number:: 457545
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Barraclough, K, Sheffield Steel
'An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas' in Sheffield, (1989), 19

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.