Former Counting House and Workmens' Cottages at Abbeydale Works Museum is a Grade II* listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1952. A Post-medieval Cottage, education centre.
Former Counting House and Workmens' Cottages at Abbeydale Works Museum
- WRENN ID
- under-gravel-martin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Heeley MP: Louise Haigh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1952
- Type
- Cottage, education centre
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Former Counting House and Workmens' Cottages at Abbeydale Works Museum, Abbeydale Road South
- OS grid reference
- SK 325 820
- Coordinates
- 53.33393, -1.51231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former counting house and workmen's cottages at Abbeydale Works Museum, originally known as Cottage Row, were built between 1786 and 1793 and are now used as an education centre, café, and house. The building is constructed from coursed squared stone and features stone slate roofs with two gable and a single ridge brick stack. It has quoins and is two storeys high, with a five-window range of glazing bar casements.
On the left side, the counting house has a loft door flanked by two single 2-light casements. Below this, there is a beaded plank door also flanked by two 2-light casements. All openings have stone lintels and sills. To the right, the cottages feature three 3-light casements, with a central board door flanked by single 3-light casements below. There is a similar door to the left and a 4-light casement to the right. The ground floor openings have stone flat arches, and the windows are fitted with plank shutters. The counting house was later repurposed as a crown scythe warehouse.
Local climate
Former Counting House and Workmens' Cottages at Abbeydale Works Museum receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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