East Range At Cornish Place Works

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.