Pluto Works

SK38NE 784-1/6/604

SHEFFIELD PRINCESS STREET (South East side) Pluto Works

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Crucible steel works, now garage, offices and workshops. c1890, with late C20 alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. EXTERIOR: plinth, wooden gutter and brackets. 2 storeys; 10 window range. Buildings grouped around polygonal yard. Main range, to Princess Street, has to left a workshop block with canted corner. Tall round-arched cart entrance infilled in lower part with round-arched glazing, flanked by 2 large round-arched glazing bar windows. Above the right window, a flat-headed 3-light casement. Office range, to right, has 2 truncated gable and ridge stacks. Triple plain sash to left, flanked to right by double and single plain sashes. Beyond, 2 widely spaced single plain sashes. Below, central late C20 door and overlight, flanked by large shop windows with toplights, all with rendered and painted surround. To left, a cart entrance with wooden lintel and double board door. To right, 2 reglazed windows. Left return, to East Coast Road, has to left the crucible shop with an 8-flue crucible stack in the left gable and a similar truncated stack in the right gable. 3 large casements, 2 of them boarded. To right, late C20 entrance and gateway. INTERIOR not inspected. This building is an example of the numerous small crucible steel works whose output complemented the bulk steel production of the major firms. (An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 28).

Listing NGR: SK3710488856