Cementation Furnace is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. Industrial building.
Cementation Furnace
- WRENN ID
- hollow-cupola-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1995
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Cementation Furnace, Doncaster Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 348 879
- Coordinates
- 53.38735, -1.47751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cementation furnace, located on Doncaster Street in Sheffield, dates from the late 19th century and was restored in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of brick with wrought-iron reinforcement and features a conical tower topped with a square flue that has an iron flap damper. There are short coped flanking walls on two sides. One side has a square access hole for loading and discharging, with a half-round stoke hole below it. The opposite side has a similar access hole with damper handles positioned above. This furnace was used for the manufacture of blister steel, which was the original raw material for crucible steel. Although blister steel fell out of use for this purpose after around 1870, the furnace continued to operate until 1952. It is the only remaining example of a type of industrial building that was once common in Sheffield and is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Cementation Furnace receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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