East Range at Cornish Place Works
EAST RANGE AT CORNISH PLACE WORKS, CORNISH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270962
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- East Range at Cornish Place Works
- Statutory Address:
- EAST RANGE AT CORNISH PLACE WORKS, CORNISH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-07-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/06514/21
- Rights:
- © Mrs Barbara A West. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1270962
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- East Range at Cornish Place Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST RANGE AT CORNISH PLACE WORKS, CORNISH STREET
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:
- EAST RANGE AT CORNISH PLACE WORKS, CORNISH STREET
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:
- SK3494288277
Details
SK3488SE
784-1/14/224
28/06/73
SHEFFIELD
CORNISH STREET
(East side)
East range at Cornish Place Works
GV
II*
Cutlery and sheet metal works with attached boiler house and
petrol pump. Late C18 and early and mid C19. Ashlar and brick,
with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate and asbestos
cement roofs with 9 gable and 2 side wall stacks.
EXTERIOR: sillbands to each floor. 3, 4 and 5 storeys plus
basement; 28 window range, arranged 10:13:5. L-plan. Windows
are metal framed glazing bar casements with keystones.
Riverside front has rusticated basement and ground floor to
the 2 main blocks. Ground floor and first floor have
round-arched windows with rusticated heads to the ground floor
and impost bands to the first floor. Second and third floors
have successively smaller segment-headed windows.
To right, 5 storey block; 5 window range. 5 round-headed
glazing bar windows to the upper floors and below, to right, 2
round-headed windows, the right one half blocked, and to left
a flat-headed 3-light casement. To right again, a 2 storey
hoist tower with a board door on each floor.
Left return, to Ball Street, has to right a 4 storey block; 17
window range. Ground and first floor have round-headed windows
with keystones and impost bands. Second and third floors have
successively smaller segment-headed windows. All but one of
the second floor windows is blocked. To left, a 3 storey
block; 12 window range. Ground floor and first floor have
round-headed windows, those to first floor with impost bands.
2 ground floor and one first floor window are blocked. 3 first
floor windows, to right, have lost their glazing bars. Third
floor has segment-headed windows, mostly boarded up, with 3 to
the right changed to glazing bar sashes.
Rear elevation, to courtyard, has to north-east a late C19 3
storey addition with a factory stack. At its south-west
corner, a bronze war memorial tablet c1920, with pedimented
wooden canopy. To its right, an attached petrol pump, c1924.
South-east side has a central 3 storey canted projection with
corniced doorcase. To right, a boiler and engine house.
INTERIOR not inspected.
A large integrated steel and cutlery works, where a wide
variety of items has been made.
(Exhibition at Kelham Island Industrial Museum).
Listing NGR: SK3494288277
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27691
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/249601
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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