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The Sheaf Quay

A Grade II Listed Building in City, Sheffield

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3862 / 53°23'10"N

Longitude: -1.4573 / 1°27'26"W

OS Eastings: 436195

OS Northings: 387839

OS Grid: SK361878

Mapcode National: GBR 9LH.3Y

Mapcode Global: WHDDP.L48Y

Plus Code: 9C5W9GPV+F3

Entry Name: The Sheaf Quay

Listing Date: 28 June 1973

Last Amended: 12 December 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1246606

English Heritage Legacy ID: 455546

ID on this website: 101246606

Location: Burngreave, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S2

County: Sheffield

Electoral Ward/Division: City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sheffield

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Park St John the Evangelist

Church of England Diocese: Sheffield

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Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 August 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

SK38NE
784-1/6/491

SHEFFIELD
NORTH QUAY DRIVE
No 1, The Sheaf Quay,

(Formerly Listed as Sheaf Works, MALTRAVERS STREET, previously listed as: MALTRAVERS STREET, Sheaf Works (front block only))

28/06/73

II
Cutlery works, now disused. 1823. Ashlar with hipped slate roof and two large ridge stacks. Classical Revival style. Plinth, first floor band and sillband, moulded eaves and
pediment, coped parapet. Three storeys; nine window range. Projecting centre, five windows, with pediment containing tablet inscribed "Sheaf Works". Windows are twelve pane sashes, the pair to right replaced by plain sashes, with moulded surrounds and cornices. Above, nine six pane sashes, two of them replaced by two-light casements. Ground floor has twelve pane sashes with eared architraves and cornices. Right return, three windows, has a projecting centre. Single twelve pane sash flanked by single tripartite sashes with scrolled pediments. Above, three six pane sashes with cornices. Below, doorcase with double columns, cornice and fanlight, flanked by single tripartite sashes with scrolled pediments. Rear has regular fenestration, with a clock in the pediment and three elliptical arched basement openings with keystones, now blocked.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

This building is said to be the first designed for the factoryproduction of cutlery.
Listing NGR: SK3619587839

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