Spital Hill Works

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE SPITAL HILL 784-1/6/670 (North West side) Spital Hill Works

II

Edge tool and silver works, now workshops, offices and shops. c1870, and c1890, restored and altered late C20. For John Sorby, edge tool manufacturer. Red brick with ashlar dressings, some of them painted, with hipped, gabled and mansard slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 17 x 15 windows. 2 parallel workshop ranges flanking a courtyard, linked by front range with cart access. Front range has 2 ridge stacks. To left a slightly projecting hipped entrance bay with angle pilasters and first floor band. Central tilting casement with pediment and dummy balustrade, flanked to left by a plain sash. Above, a round-arched plain sash with keystone, flanked by single square windows. All these windows have projecting surrounds. Below, to right, a cart entrance with moulded surround and scroll pediment, and double board doors. To left, a doorway with heavily rusticated surround and keystone, under segmental pediment. To right, a range with 10 tilting casements, and above, 7 larger plain sashes with ornamented keystones. To right again, a projecting bay with hipped mansard roof and side wall stack. Central tilting casement with projecting surround, multiple keystone and segmental pediment, flanked by single smaller casements. Above, central larger plain sash with eared architrave, flanked by smaller sashes, all with keystones. To right again, a lean-to single bay with a round window with keystone and above, a small sash. Ground floor has a continuous run of late C20 shopfronts with fascias. Left return, 8 bays, has 7 truncated external stacks. On the first floor, 7 semicircular openings with cast-iron lattice grilles, and to right, a similar blank opening flanked by single narrow casements. Other floors have late C20 windows. Parallel rear range has continuous first floor windows. INTERIOR not inspected. During the C20, the works was operated by the Lockwood family, and silverware was made there. (Recc. from Sheffield Trades Historical Society; Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council.).

Listing NGR: SK3599288239