Brooklyn Works

SHEFFIELD

SK3488SE GREEN LANE 784-1/14/392 (North side) 18/11/85 Brooklyn Works (Formerly Listed as: KELHAM WEIR Ball Street Bridge, Beckett's Gable Wall, Kelham Weir)

GV II

Steel and file works. Mid and late C19, with C20 alterations. For Alfred Beckett & Sons, Ltd. Red brick, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. EXTERIOR: river side range, single storey; 12 window range. To left, 7 coped gables with string course and coursed squared stone basement. Each gable has a segment-headed 3-light casement, and above, a round ventilator. To right, a single storey link building with 2 windows. To right again, rendered and painted gable end of single storey range, with 3 blank segment-headed windows. Above them, a rendered relief sign with the firm's name and trademark and decorative flourishes. Coped gable with 3 ball finials. Right return has 8 segment-headed windows, some blocked. To right, a set back range, 2 storeys, with 6 side wall stacks. Six 2-light casements to left, and 6 glazing bar sashes to right, all segment-headed. Below, 7 windows and large single and double doors. Green Lane front has to left a 2-storey range with angled corner and 8 casements on each floor. To right, a block with string course and moulded eaves, with a pair of tall, narrow windows flanked to left by 2 larger windows, and to right by 3. Below, doorcase with cornice, flanked by 2 windows to left and one to right. To right again, a 3 storey block, mid C19, with plinth, string course, and dentilled wooden eaves. Rendered relief sign with the firm's name, between the lower floors. 9 windows on each floor, mainly plain sashes. Ground floor has cart entrance with a pair of doors, flanked to right by 3 windows. To left, a doorcase with cornice and overlight, flanked to right by a window and to left by 2 windows. Rendered right gable has a segment-headed rendered relief sign with the firm's name. INTERIOR not inspected. Building vacant at time of survey. The Beckett's gable wall with sign (part of the riverside range) was previously listed on 18/11/95; the works in addition to it (described above) are a new listing.

Listing NGR: SK3497888253