Lodge Weighbridge Cabin And Boundary Walls At Darnall Works

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE DARNALL ROAD 784-1/6/242 (South West side) 21/05/87 Lodge, weighbridge cabin and boundary walls at Darnall Works (Formerly Listed as: DARNALL ROAD, Attercliffe Former gate lodges (eastern one No.132) and attached walls at SK Darnall Works)

GV II

Lodge, weighbridge cabin and boundary walls. c1872, with C20 alterations. For Sanderson Brothers. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roofs. Lodge has 2 rear wall stacks, cabin a single one. Blind backed 2 storey lodge is end-on to the street, with a single margin light sash above and a blocked window below, both with panelled lintels. Opposite end has an unglazed window on each floor, the lower one flanked to left by a 4-panel door. The side facing the entrance is blank above and has a central round-headed doorway with a window to right. Windows have segmental heads. Single storey weighbridge cabin, also end-on to the street, has a blocked round-headed doorway with keystone. Facing the lodge, a fielded 4 panel door with overlight, and to its left an unglazed double sash. Left return has an unglazed window. INTERIOR not inspected. Gateway has brick piers with guard stones and stone caps, and C20 gate. L-plan boundary wall, approx 2.5m high, has a brick coping. To left of the lodge, approx 30m long. Return along Wilfrid road, approx 150m to the end of the crucible steel shops, has stepped coping. To right of the lodge, approx 30m with ramped coping. These buildings are part of the last surviving large crucible steel works in Sheffield. Lodge and cabin disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SK3858888540