Don Sawmills
DON SAWMILLS, 48, SAVILE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271009
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Don Sawmills
- Statutory Address:
- DON SAWMILLS, 48, SAVILE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271009
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Don Sawmills
- Statutory Address 1:
- DON SAWMILLS, 48, SAVILE 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:
- DON SAWMILLS, 48, SAVILE 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:
- SK 36070 88123
Details
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE SAVILE STREET 784-1/6/643 (South side) 16/10/95 No.48 Don Sawmills
II
Sawmills. c1870, with mid C20 alterations. Brick with stone sills, some renewed in concrete. Gabled and hipped slate and corrugated iron roofs. Truncated square factory stack. EXTERIOR: front range, to Savile Street, 2 storeys; 8 window range. T-plan. Central gable has 3 round-arched glazing bar windows on each floor. Lower range to left has 3 reglazed 3-light casements, and below, a round-arched glazing bar window to right and an altered cart entrance to left, with wooden door and slatted grille above. Range to right has the upper floor covered by a sign board. Below, a round-arched glazing bar window. To right, beyond a cart entrance, a single storey office. Riverside seasoning warehouse, 3 storeys plus basement, 9 window range. On the first floor, tall openings, 2 to left open, the others closed by wooden panels. Above, 9 small square openings, the right one blocked. Ground floor has to left a cart entrance under a relieving arch, and to its right, 2 glazing bar cross casements, with a square basement opening below the right one. To right again, 3 round-arched openings, then a double loading door. To left of the warehouse, office range, 3 storeys; 2 window range. First floor windows have slightly segmental heads, second floor ones have concrete lintels. Left window barred. Ground floor has 2 smaller windows. Central range of open racking with clerestory roof and ground floor sawmill with beams carried on cast-iron posts. INTERIOR not inspected. (An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 22).
Listing NGR: SK3607088123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456479
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas in Sheffield, (1989), 22
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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