52 54 AND 56, GARDEN STREET

SHEFFIELD

SK3487NE GARDEN STREET 784-1/18/343 (North side) 13/06/88 Nos.52, 54 AND 56 and adjoining workshops

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3 houses, now workshops, and adjoining workshops. c1840 and c1860, with late C19 and mid and late C20 alterations. Brick with slate roofs. Front block, formerly houses, now partly demolished. Workshops to rear on either side of yard. EXTERIOR: front range has to left a 3 storey block, single window. Colourwashed brick, rendered right gable. Plinth, first floor band and gable stack, and a single reglazed plain sash on each floor, the second floor window smaller, all with multi-keystone lintels. Ground floor has to right a C20 door. To right, a mid C19 block, 2 windows, reduced to single storey. Brick with corrugated asbestos roof. 2 large 3-light wooden casements and to left, a passage doorway. Block to left of yard, mid C19, 3 builds. 3 storeys; 10 window range. 2 rear wall stacks. First floor has, to left, a blank, then four 16 pane sashes. To right, 3 glazing bar casements, then two C20 windows. Above, four 16 pane sashes, then 3 C20 windows. To right, three 2-light glazing bar casements, then 2 C20 windows. Ground floor has to left, a blocked basket arched cart opening with C20 door inserted, flanked to left by a small blocked opening, then a plain sash and a 4-panel door, both with multi-keystone lintels. To right, a stable door, then a metal framed glazing bar casement, and a 4-panel door to stairway. To right again, a stable door, then a 3-light casement, then a blocked basket arched carriage opening. Block to right of yard, mid C19 and C20, 2 storeys; 9 window range. 2 gable and 2 ridge stacks. First floor has to left three 3-light casements, and to right, six 2-light casements. Ground floor has to left a door flanked to left by a blocked door and to right by a small window, then a door to the stairway. The rest of the front is covered by a C20 brick addition. Right return has two 2-light casements and below, 2 C20 doors. Rear has seven 2-light casements and to right three 3-light metal framed casements. Below, a blocked opening and 5 windows, all boarded up. INTERIOR not inspected. This building is an example of the small scale cutlery workshops characteristic of the Sheffield cutlery industry. Some cutlery processes are still carried out here.

Listing NGR: SK3486987559