PRESIDENT WORKS OFFICES

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:: 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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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

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'An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas' in Sheffield, (1989), 25

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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.