East Range at Cornish Place Works is a Grade II* listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. A Industrial Industrial. 3 related planning applications.
East Range at Cornish Place Works
- WRENN ID
- ragged-ledge-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1973
- Type
- Industrial
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- East Range at Cornish Place Works, Cornish Street, S6 3AF
- OS grid reference
- SK 349 882
- Coordinates
- 53.39019, -1.47606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th and early to mid-19th century cutlery and sheet metal works, with an attached boiler house and petrol pump, located in Sheffield. The building is constructed of ashlar and brick, with ashlar dressings, and has hipped and gabled slate and asbestos cement roofs, with nine gable and two side wall stacks. It is of group value.
The building has an L-plan and a 28-window range, arranged 10:13:5, with sillbands to each floor and three to five storeys plus a basement. The riverside front features a rusticated basement and ground floor to the two main blocks. Round-arched windows with rusticated heads are present on the ground floor, while the first floor has impost bands. Subsequent floors have progressively smaller segment-headed windows.
To the right is a five-storey block with five windows arranged on upper floors. The ground floor features round-headed windows, with one half-blocked and a single three-light casement. A two-story hoist tower is present to the right again, with a board door on each floor.
The left return, facing Ball Street, displays a four-story block with seventeen windows. The ground and first floors feature round-headed windows with keystones and impost bands. Segment-headed windows are found on the second and third floors; all but one of the second-floor windows are blocked. A three-story block with twelve windows is to the left, with round-headed windows on the ground and first floors and segment-headed windows on the third floor. Several windows have been blocked or altered, with some glazing bars lost.
The rear elevation, facing a courtyard, includes a late 19th-century three-story addition with a factory stack. A bronze war memorial tablet, dating to circa 1920, is situated at the south-west corner, sheltered by a pedimented wooden canopy. Adjacent to it is an attached petrol pump dating to circa 1924. The south-east side features a central three-story canted projection with a corniced doorcase, and a boiler and engine house to the right.
The interior has not been inspected. This complex served as a large integrated steel and cutlery works, producing a wide range of items.
Local climate
East Range at Cornish Place Works receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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