Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3488SE GREEN LANE
784-1/14/392 (North side)
18/11/85 Brooklyn Works
(Formerly Listed as:
KELHAM WEIR
Ball Street Bridge, Beckett's Gable
Wall, Kelham Weir)

GV II

Steel and file works. Mid and late C19, with C20 alterations.
For Alfred Beckett & Sons, Ltd. Red brick, partly rendered,
with ashlar dressings and slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: river side range, single storey; 12 window range.
To left, 7 coped gables with string course and coursed squared
stone basement. Each gable has a segment-headed 3-light
casement, and above, a round ventilator. To right, a single
storey link building with 2 windows. To right again, rendered
and painted gable end of single storey range, with 3 blank
segment-headed windows. Above them, a rendered relief sign
with the firm's name and trademark and decorative flourishes.
Coped gable with 3 ball finials. Right return has 8
segment-headed windows, some blocked. To right, a set back
range, 2 storeys, with 6 side wall stacks. Six 2-light
casements to left, and 6 glazing bar sashes to right, all
segment-headed. Below, 7 windows and large single and double
doors.
Green Lane front has to left a 2-storey range with angled
corner and 8 casements on each floor. To right, a block with
string course and moulded eaves, with a pair of tall, narrow
windows flanked to left by 2 larger windows, and to right by
3. Below, doorcase with cornice, flanked by 2 windows to left
and one to right. To right again, a 3 storey block, mid C19,
with plinth, string course, and dentilled wooden eaves.
Rendered relief sign with the firm's name, between the lower
floors. 9 windows on each floor, mainly plain sashes. Ground
floor has cart entrance with a pair of doors, flanked to right
by 3 windows. To left, a doorcase with cornice and overlight,
flanked to right by a window and to left by 2 windows.
Rendered right gable has a segment-headed rendered relief sign
with the firm's name.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Building vacant at time of survey.
The Beckett's gable wall with sign (part of the riverside
range) was previously listed on 18/11/95; the works in
addition to it (described above) are a new listing.

Listing NGR: SK3497888253

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Brooklyn Works at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4974926

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