President Works Offices
PRESIDENT WORKS OFFICES, SAVILE STREET EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271010
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- President Works Offices
- Statutory Address:
- PRESIDENT WORKS OFFICES, SAVILE STREET EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271010
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- President Works Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESIDENT WORKS OFFICES, SAVILE STREET EAST
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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:
- PRESIDENT WORKS OFFICES, SAVILE STREET EAST
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:
- SK3696688771
Details
SK38NE
784-1/6/646
SHEFFIELD
SAVILE STREET EAST
(North West side)
President Works offices
GV
II
Steel works offices. c1852, with later C19 additions and mid
C20 alterations and additions, refurbished late C20. For Moses
Eadon & Sons, steel manufacturers. Brick with ashlar dressings
and gabled and hipped slate roofs, with 2 gable stacks.
Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, first floor band, moulded wooden eaves
cornice. 2 and 3 storeys; 26 window range. First-floor windows
are round-arched glazing bar sashes with imposts and recessed
panels below them. Ground floor windows are round-arched
3-light casements with transoms, some of them blocked.
Near-symmetrical main range has central 3 storey gatehouse
with rusticated quoins, modillion eaves, hipped roof and 2
side wall stacks. On the first floor, 3 windows, and above, a
roundel flanked by small 2-light round-headed windows. Below,
an elliptical arched cart entrance with rusticated surround
and keystone, and to its left, a round-arched recess with
keystone, containing a window. Beyond, to left, a range of 7
windows. To right, a similar range of 8 windows. Beyond again,
at either end, a block defined by rusticated pilasters and
with a blocking course, with 4 windows on each floor.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: during the later C19, this building was
bought by John Brown, and formed part of the Firth-Brown
industrial group which pioneered the manufacture of cheap bulk
steel in Britain, and manufactured steel rails and armour
plate.
Building vacant at time of survey.
(An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation
Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 25; Recc. from
Sheffield Trades Historical Society).
Listing NGR: SK3696688771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456483
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas in Sheffield, (1989), 25
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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