Sheffield United Gas Light Company Offices

The Sheffield United Gas Light Company Offices, built in 1875 with an addition of 1890, are located on Commercial Street and Shude Hill, Sheffield. The design is by ME Hadfield & Son, with a domed General Office by JF Bentley, carving by Thomas Earp, and a Board Room ceiling by Hugh Stannus. The building served as offices for the Sheffield United Gas Light Company.

The structure is a combination of ashlar and brick, topped with a slate mansard roof and two coped ridge stacks and three side wall stacks. It is in an Italian Renaissance Revival style. The exterior is characterized by intermediate and dentilled main cornices, a low coped parapet with pedestals, square corner pinnacles topped with spires. The two-storey main block has seven windows across and six windows high. The front features round-arched windows, which were unglazed at the time of survey. A prominent central bay on the first floor is divided by paired granite Corinthian columns, while outer bays are articulated by paired Corinthian pilasters. The central window is topped by a segmental pediment; flanking windows have gabled pediments, and the remaining have segmental pediments. A large central dormer, topped with a dentilled pediment containing a crest, sits above, flanked by smaller windows divided by pilasters. The ground floor, similarly articulated, has rusticated quoins and six windows, with panelled surrounds on the central and outer windows. A round-arched doorway, flanked by Atlantes on pedestals supporting a segmental pediment, is positioned in the sixth bay. The right return has corresponding fenestration. A rusticated two-storey basement has two segmental pedimented windows, one altered to a door, with plain windows above. Adjoining this is a lower, single-storey block above a two-storey basement with a panelled attic; it has four round-arched windows; the basement has four segmental pedimented windows, one altered to a door, with plain windows above. To the right another addition of 1890 is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof and features a 16-window range divided by brick pilasters. The fenestration is regular, with segment-headed first floor windows and round-arched windows with keystones above. The painted ground floor features a central segment-arched door flanked by six segment-headed windows. A single entrance bay to the left feature round-arched windows on each floor and a cart opening below.

The interior is reported to contain a glazed dome in the General Office and important decorative works by Earp and Stannus. At the time of survey, the building was undergoing restoration, and the windows were primarily unglazed.