Sheffield Bus Museum And Sheaf Transport Garage

The Sheffield Bus Museum and Sheaf Transport Garage is a tram depot that has been converted into a bus garage, bus museum, and industrial units. It was built in 1874 and extended in 1899, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The building features painted brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, including two ridge stacks and a single gable stack.

The exterior includes a plinth, shallow buttresses, an eaves band, and coped gables. There are double chamfered brick mullioned windows with leaded glazing. The taller block from 1874, located on the right, is two storeys high and has three bays. It features a projecting machicolated panel with two three-light windows, flanked by single four-light windows. Below these windows is a band inscribed "Sheffield Tramways Company." There are three tall pointed arched tram openings with hoodmoulds, each with a blocked tympanum and a pair of double doors.

To the left is a lower two-storey addition with six windows and a central pair of gables, each containing a transomed three-light window, flanked by smaller two-light and four-light windows. Below this are four square-headed tram openings with label moulds; the two on the left have pairs of framed panelled doors, while the pair on the right have been bricked up and feature late 20th-century doors and windows. Additionally, there is a five-light window to the left and a two-light window above it, as well as a single window to the right with a two-light window above.

Inside, the space is open to the roof, with brick side walls and longitudinal lattice girders supported by round cast-iron piers. The roof features lattice trusses made of angle iron and includes skylights. Originally, the depot housed horse-drawn trams until 1899 when the route was electrified. The stables were demolished, and the tram shed was extended to accommodate 100 electric cars, making it the first depot in Sheffield to house electric cars. It remained in operation until the end of tramway services in 1960, being the last city tram route in England.