Attercliffe Sipelia Works

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE CADMAN STREET 784-1/6/131 (West side) 13/06/88 Attercliffe Sipelia Works

GV II

Steel works, now various workshops. 1850-55, with later C19 and C20 alterations. Built for Eyre, Ward & Co. Brick, the front painted, and rock-faced stone, with stone dressings and hipped and gabled slate and plain tile roofs. Long courtyard with workshop ranges on either side flanking the canal to north and Blast Lane to south, with transverse office range to east. EXTERIOR: office range has plinth and first floor band. 2 storeys; 5 window range of 12 pane sashes with brick flat arches. Central segmental carriage arch with keystone, flanked to right by a moulded 4-panel door with traceried round-headed overlight, in a common rusticated corniced surround. To right, a single window, boarded up. To left, a C20 casement. To left again, a single storey building with 2 windows and a double door. Curved right return, to canal, has continuous rock-faced ashlar basement and roll moulded string course. 2-storey range, various builds, has to left regular fenestration with various C19 and C20 windows arranged 2:3:4:5:7:2, many of them blocked. To right, beyond a gap, a 2-storey range with 9 windows, then a range reduced to a single storey screen wall, with 12 windows. Basement has a segment-headed off-centre doorway with rusticated surround. The courtyard side, 2 storeys, has an off-centre blocked cart opening. Left return has to left a 2-storey range with segment-headed windows and to right, a taller single storey range, probably a heavy forge, with 8 tall segment-headed windows, the left one with inserted door, all reglazed C20. To right, a tall carriage entrance with steel lintel. The courtyard side of this range, formerly open, has round cast-iron columns and brick infill with multi-pane glazing above. To right, a square chimney base. Canal side buildings, probably light trades workshops, have brick vaulted floors and multiple flues. Basement contains storage rooms and engine and boiler house. INTERIOR not inspected. This building was erected as an extension of the nearby Sheaf Works (qv) and is an example of the steel trades works of the mid C19.

Listing NGR: SK3635487920