52 54 AND 56, GARDEN STREET

This is a group of three houses, now workshops, with adjoining workshops, built around 1840 and again around 1860. Later alterations were made in the late 19th century and in the mid-to-late 20th century. The buildings are constructed of brick with slate roofs.

The front range originally comprised three houses, although the left-hand block has been partly demolished. To the left is a three-story block with a single window, featuring colourwashed brick and a rendered gable. It has a plinth, a band between the first floor and the gable, and a single reglazed sash window on each floor, with the second-floor window being smaller. All the windows have multi-keystone lintels. A 20th-century door is situated on the ground floor to the right. Adjacent is a mid-19th century block, originally two windows wide, now reduced to a single story, with a corrugated asbestos roof. It features two large, three-light wooden casements, and a passage doorway to the left.

A mid-19th century block to the left of the yard is three stories high, with a ten-window range. It has two rear wall stacks. The first floor has a blank window to the left, followed by four sixteen-pane sashes. To the right are three glazing bar casements, then two 20th-century windows. Above, there are four sixteen-pane sashes, then three 20th-century windows. Further to the right, three two-light glazing bar casements are followed by two 20th-century windows. The ground floor has, to the left, a blocked basket arched cart opening with a 20th-century door inserted, flanked to the left by a small blocked opening, then a plain sash and a four-panel door, both with multi-keystone lintels. To the right are a stable door, a metal-framed glazing bar casement, and a four-panel door to the stairway, followed by another stable door, a three-light casement, and a blocked basket arched carriage opening. The block to the right of the yard, dating from the mid-19th century and 20th century, is two stories high with a nine-window range. It has two gable and two ridge stacks. The first floor has three three-light casements to the left, and six two-light casements to the right. The ground floor features a door, flanked to the left by a blocked door and to the right by a small window. The remainder of the front is covered by a 20th-century brick addition. The right return has two two-light casements and two 20th-century doors below. The rear has seven two-light casements and, to the right, three three-light metal-framed casements. Below this is a blocked opening and five windows, all boarded up. The interior was not inspected. The building represents a small-scale cutlery workshop, characteristic of the Sheffield cutlery industry, and some cutlery processes are still practiced there.