Spital Hill Works

Spital Hill Works is a complex of edge tool and silver works, now used as workshops, offices, and shops. It dates to circa 1870 and circa 1890, having been restored and altered in the late 20th century. The building was commissioned for John Sorby, an edge tool manufacturer. Constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, some of which are painted, the building features hipped, gabled, and mansard slate roofs.

The building comprises three storeys and has 17 windows by 15 windows. It consists of two parallel workshop ranges flanking a courtyard, connected by a front range with cart access. The front range has two ridge stacks. A slightly projecting hipped entrance bay is on the left, featuring angle pilasters and a first-floor band. It has a central tilting casement with a pediment and dummy balustrade, flanked to the left by a plain sash. Above, a round-arched plain sash with a keystone is flanked by single square windows, all with projecting surrounds. A cart entrance with a moulded surround and scroll pediment, and double board doors is located to the right of the doorway with a heavily rusticated surround and keystone, under a segmental pediment. A range to the right contains ten tilting casements, and above, seven larger plain sashes with ornamented keystones. A projecting bay with a hipped mansard roof and a side wall stack is further to the right. This bay features a central tilting casement with a projecting surround, multiple keystone, and a segmental pediment, flanked by single smaller casements. Above this, the central larger plain sash has an eared architrave, flanked by smaller sashes, all with keystones. A lean-to single bay has a round window with a keystone and a small sash above. The ground floor now has a continuous run of late 20th-century shopfronts with fascias. The left return, with eight bays, has seven truncated external stacks. On the first floor, there are seven semicircular openings with cast-iron lattice grilles, and to the right, a similar blank opening flanked by single narrow casements. Other floors have late 20th-century windows. The parallel rear range has a continuous first-floor row of windows.

The interior was not inspected. During the 20th century, the works was operated by the Lockwood family, and silverware was made there.