Murray Building

The Murray Building is a late 19th and early 20th century metal trades factory, originally a truss works and later used by Joseph Gray & Sons as a surgical instrument manufactory. It is constructed of red brick with slate roofs and red brick stacks. The building has a rectangular courtyard layout, enclosed by ranges fronting Boston Street, Arley Street, and the west.

The front range on Boston Street is three storeys high with nine bays. A gable-end stack is located to the west. The central bay is wider and features a cart entrance with a simple painted timber architrave and cornice above, finished with lead flashing. A pair of plain, painted timber doors are set within this entrance. Above the entrance is a tripartite window divided by plain stone mullions and with plain stone lintels; other windows, diminishing in size from ground to second floor, are 12-pane timber sashes with segmental brick heads and stone sills. One second-floor window is bricked up.

The east gable end, facing Arley Street, has similar window openings. A doorway is blocked with smaller windows above. The west gable has a single-light window on the first floor, with a plain stone lintel and brick sill.

A two-storey range to the south, along Arley Street, has five workshop bays with a pitched roof, a twin ridge stack and a truncated stack where it joins the Boston Street range. The windows here are similar to those on Boston Street, with segmental brick heads, stone sills, and 12-pane sashes, except in the southernmost bay, which has two narrow single-light openings with segmental heads. To the south of the workshops, the range extends with a gabled return to the street, and includes a separately accessed house, likely a caretaker's residence. This house has two and three storeys, a gable-end stack, a central doorway with a chamfered stone lintel and overlight, and a four-panelled door. Windows on the ground floor are bipartite; those on the first floor are a combination of bipartite and single-light openings. The windows have plain stone mullions, chamfered stone lintels, and cills, with plate glass sashes. A smaller window beneath the eaves has a similar lintel and timber casements. The south gable end has painted brickwork, with a full-length high-level opening.

The western range is two storeys, likely rebuilt. It has irregular, plain window openings with rendered lintels and 20th-century casements. The roof has iron vents and a 20th-century flat-roofed single-bay attic block.

The interior was not inspected.

The building is a relatively unaltered example of a traditional Sheffield metal trade works building and includes an integral dwelling house.