HORN HANDLE WORKS

HORN HANDLE WORKS, 32, BROOM CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391681
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-2006
List Entry Name:: HORN HANDLE WORKS
Statutory Address:: HORN HANDLE WORKS, 32, BROOM CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391681
Date first listed:: 16-Jun-2006
List Entry Name:: HORN HANDLE WORKS
Statutory Address 1:: HORN HANDLE WORKS, 32, BROOM CLOSE
Statutory Address 2:: HORN HANDLE WORKS, 57-59, CLUB GARDEN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HORN HANDLE WORKS, 32, BROOM CLOSE
Statutory Address:: HORN HANDLE WORKS, 57-59, CLUB GARDEN 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 34776 86034

Details

SHEFFIELD

784-1/0/10135 CLUB GARDEN ROAD 16-JUN-06 57-59 Horn Handle Works BROOM CLOSE 32 Horn Handle Works

II Horn handle works and shop, now workshops. Late C19, phased construction. Red brick with painted stone dressings, hipped slate roofs, brick stacks with ornamental chimney pots. 2 storeys. Shop: at corner to left of Club Garden Road façade: doorway with overlight at angle, with rectangular projecting bay shop window to right and flat shop window to left return, divided by decorative pilasters and linked by fascia and cornice above. [Doorway and windows boarded up, August 2003.] At angle above doorway, plain panel flanked by canted brick pilasters on stone bases and moulded stone cill. To left and right at first floor, 2-light sash windows with stone cills and chamfered stone lintels. 6-pane top sashes, plate glass below, divided by moulded wooden baluster. Slender stone roll moulding above, extending across the rest of the Club Garden Road façade. Left return has screen wall with doorway (C20 door) with chamfered stone lintel. Sash window with stone cill and chamfered stone lintel above: 8-pane top sash, plate glass below. Straight joint to right, to first floor only. Stack to rear slope of roof. Works: Club Garden Road façade. Stone plinth. To left, decorative panelled door with overlight in moulded stone surround with cornice. 2 2-light sash windows to ground floor, with chamfered stone cills and lintels. 6-pane top sashes, plate glass below. First floor has sash window above door, with stone cill and chamfered stone lintel, 8-pane top sash, 2-pane below, and 2 similar 2-light windows to right, divided by moulded wooden balusters and with plate glass lower sashes. 3 decorative ventilators. Eaves brackets. Stack between windows, with stone cornice. Chamfered angle to right, at junction with Broom Close. Broom Close façade, of 2 phases, later section to right forming warehouse. Cellar becomes visible as site slopes to right. Earlier section, containing works, has stone-capped plinth, 2 pairs of sash windows with chamfered stone cills and lintels. 8-pane top sashes over plate glass. To right, raised above cellar window opening, loading doorway with plain board doors and chamfered lintel. Black-painted band above attempting to obliterate painted lettering reading 'HORN HANDLE WORKS'. First floor has 9 small sash windows (8-pane over plate glass sashes) with stone cills and chamfered stone lintels, these so closely set as to seem continuous. 3 ventilators. Ridge stack at junction with later section, to right, which has central entrance with chamfered stone lintel and plain board doors, flanked by tall single-light windows with chamfered stone cills and lintels. Similar loading doorway above, with steel hoist. Painted lettering to left, reading 'ESTABLISHED 1792'. 2 ventilators. Rear wall rendered. Rear wall stack. Sources. Barnwell P S Palmers M, and Airs, M (eds).2004. The Vernacular Workshop. From craft to industry. The Council For British Archaeology pp 136-149.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A small-scale late C19 horn handle works, little-altered and representing an important, but little recognised specialist trade which formed part of Sheffield's internationally significant cutlery manufacturing industry in the late C19 and early C20.

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Legacy System number:: 490727
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Barnwell, P S, Palmers, M, Airs, M (ed), The Vernacular Workshop. From craft to industry, (2004)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.