Canalside Warehouse Of Gs Dilley And Sons

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE EFFINGHAM ROAD 784-1/6/307 (South East side) 13/06/88 Canalside warehouse of GS Dilley & Sons

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Iron warehouse. Mid C19, with later C19 additions. Built for the Firth family, steel makers. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled C20 corrugated iron roofs. L-plan, with taller gabled warehouse end-on to the canal and lower warehouse with hipped 2-span roof parallel to the canal to its right. EXTERIOR: canal side has continuous ashlar plinth. Gable to left has a blocked elliptical arched goods entrance with rusticated head and voussoirs. In the opposite gable, a blocked round-arched opening above, and an enlarged entrance below, with timber lintel. Range to right is open to roof but has 2 storeys of openings. Above, a central segment-headed window flanked by single flatter arched windows and beyond, single larger windows. All are bricked up. Below, 2 goods entrances, the left segment-headed, the right with girder lintel, and to left, a window. All are bricked up. Rear has central full-height segment-headed doorway with flanking buttresses, flanked by 2 round-headed windows, the left ones blocked and the right ones partly blocked. INTERIOR has king post truss roof, and narrow gauge rail track. The warehouses were used for the storage of bar iron from Sweden before it was processed in the cementation and crucible works. It is said to be the sole survivor of this type of warehouse in Sheffield. (An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 19; Barraclough K: Sheffield Steel: PLATES 23 & 24).

Listing NGR: SK3702688011