Sheffield Bus Museum and Sheaf Transport Garage
SHEFFIELD BUS MUSEUM AND SHEAF TRANSPORT GARAGE, SHEFFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270906
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield Bus Museum and Sheaf Transport Garage
- Statutory Address:
- SHEFFIELD BUS MUSEUM AND SHEAF TRANSPORT GARAGE, SHEFFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270906
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield Bus Museum and Sheaf Transport Garage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEFFIELD BUS MUSEUM AND SHEAF TRANSPORT GARAGE, SHEFFIELD 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:
- SHEFFIELD BUS MUSEUM AND SHEAF TRANSPORT GARAGE, SHEFFIELD 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 39124 90282
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK39SE SHEFFIELD ROAD, Tinsley 784-1/2/880 (North West side) 13/06/88 Sheffield Bus Museum and Sheaf Transport garage (Formerly Listed as: SHEFFIELD ROAD, Tinsley Tinsley Tram Depot at junction with Weedon Street)
II
Tram depot, now bus garage, bus museum and industrial units. 1874, extended 1899, with late C20 alterations. Painted brick with stone dressings and slate roof, with 2 ridge and single gable stacks. Deep tram shed fronted by cross-range fronting Sheffield Road. EXTERIOR: plinth, shallow buttresses, eaves band, coped gables. Double chamfered brick mullioned windows with leaded glazing. Taller 1874 block, to right, 2 storeys, 3 bays, has a projecting machicolated panel with two 3-light windows. On either side, single 4-light windows. Below the windows, a band inscribed " Sheffield Tramways Company". Below, 3 tall pointed arched tram openings with hoodmoulds, each with blocked tympanum and a pair of double doors. To left, lower 2 storey addition, 6 windows, with a central pair of gables, each with a transomed 3-light window, flanked by smaller 2-light and 4-light windows. Below, 4 square headed tram openings with label moulds, the 2 to left with pairs of framed panelled doors, the pair to right bricked up and with C20 doors and windows. To left, a 5-light window and above it, between floors, a 2-light window. To right, a single window with a 2-light window above it. INTERIOR: open to roof, has brick side walls and longitudinal lattice girders carried on round cast-iron piers. Lattice trussed angle iron roof with skylights. The depot housed horse drawn trams until 1899 when the route was electrified. The stables were demolished and the tram shed was extended to take 100 electric cars. This was the first depot in Sheffield to accommodate electric cars, and continued in use till the end of tramway services in 1960, this being the last city tram route in England.
Listing NGR: SK3912490282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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