Latitude: 53.3909 / 53°23'27"N
Longitude: -1.4226 / 1°25'21"W
OS Eastings: 438496
OS Northings: 388385
OS Grid: SK384883
Mapcode National: GBR 9TG.L8
Mapcode Global: WHDDQ.31V9
Plus Code: 9C5W9HRG+9X
Entry Name: Cruicible Steel Shops on South East Side of Sandserson Kaysers Darnall Works
Listing Date: 21 May 1987
Last Amended: 12 December 1995
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1247369
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456803
Also known as: Former Sanderson's Darnall Steelworks and Don Valley Glassworks, Darnall Road
ID on this website: 101247369
Location: Darnall, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S9
County: Sheffield
Electoral Ward/Division: Darnall
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sheffield
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Attercliffe and Darnall
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
Tagged with: Architectural structure Steel mill
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE DARNALL ROAD 784-1/6/241 (South West side) 21/05/87 Crucible steel shops on south-east side of Sanderson Kayser's Darnall Works (Formerly Listed as: DARNALL ROAD, Attercliffe Former melting shop on E side of Sanderson Kayser's Darnall Works)
GV II*
5 crucible steel making shops, now stores. 1872. For Sanderson Brothers. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate and corrugated asbestos roofs. Single storey. 3:2:6:6:4 windows. Round headed openings with stone sills to mainly unglazed windows. 7 cross-ridge crucible stacks, each probably with 6 flues, and on the rear wall to Wilfrid Street, 2 smaller single stacks. Front elevation, to yard, has wooden cross casements, some with barred heads. 6 doorways enlarged and given steel or concrete lintels. Rear has similar blocked and boarded up windows. INTERIORS have crucible furnaces on either side, with iron brackets for crucible drying shelves and for tools. Strutted king post roof trusses. The Darnall Works site was developed initially in 1835. This range was added in 1872, increasing the works' capacity by 84 holes. Darnall Works was one of a number of large scale crucible steel works in Sheffield, but it is the last to survive and is unique in Britain. (Darnall Works 1835-1965: Sanderson Kayser Ltd.: 1965-; 400 years of iron and steel: Sanderson Kayser Magazine: 1969-1971; House of Saben Vol. 1, No 4, 1921 & Vol. 2 No 12, 1927).
Listing NGR: SK3849688385
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