Former Joseph Tyzack And Company Meersbrook Saw Works

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SK38SE VALLEY ROAD 784-1/10/731 (North East side) Nos.19 AND 21 Former Joseph Tyzack & Co. Meersbrook Saw Works

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Saw works, offices and salerooms, now workshops. c1880, with early and late C20 alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings and slate roofs with single gable and 2 ridge stacks. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill and lintel bands to each floor, eaves band, wooden gutter. 3 storeys; 21 window range. L-plan. Pilaster strips between the windows, with square recessed panels with brick corbelled heads below each window on the upper floors. Central double entrance bay has flanking pilasters with faceted projections on the first floor. Open pediment with roundel containing the firm's trademark in relief. On the upper floors, 2 plain sashes. Below, segment-arched cart entrance with rusticated piers and voussoirs and lintel above inscribed with the firm's name. To left, 9 glazing bar casements on the upper floors. Ground floor has a late C20 off-centre door flanked by 4 similar casements to left and 3 to right. Beyond, to right, a door with side and top lights. To right, 6 plain sashes, then a canted wooden oriel window with cornice. Beyond, 2 plain sashes and a blank. Above, 10 smaller plain sashes. Below, a blank flanked to left by 2 sashes and to right by 3 sashes, all with altered glazing. To right, below the oriel window, a moulded stone doorcase with flat hood, panelled door and overlight. To its right, 2 single pane windows and a door with overlight, all late C20. At the rear, a parallel range, early C20, concrete framed with brick infill and continuous windows. C19 left wing, fronting courtyard, 3 storeys; 8 window range, with irregular fenestration. INTERIOR not inspected. Joseph Tyzack & Co. were leading saw manufacturers until the mid C20.

Listing NGR: SK3512784631