Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3487NE SOLLY STREET 784-1/18/667 (North West side) 13/06/88 Nos.216 AND 218 with workshop ranges to rear

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Cutlery and silverware workshops and offices. c1860 and c1890, with early and mid C20 alterations and additions. Brick with rendered left return, ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 6 gable and 4 side wall stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 and 2 storeys; 4 window range. Office block fronting street, with workshops at the rear forming an incomplete quadrilateral. Office block has plinth and sillbands to each floor, and openings with multi-keystone lintels, all painted. Gutter on shaped wooden brackets. Three 12 pane sashes and to right, a larger tripartite sash. Above, four 9 pane sashes, the second one blank. Off-centre segment-arched cart opening with header brick arch and stone cornice. On the frieze, the inscription "James Lodge Ltd.". To left, two 12 pane sashes, the lower lights blocked. To right, a doorway with eared architrave and cornice, with moulded 4 panel door and overlight. To its right, a 12 pane sash. At the rear, the office block has four 12 pane sashes and above, six C20 windows. Workshop block to left of courtyard, mid C19, 3 storeys; 3 window range. Three 3-light glazing bar casements with slight segmental heads. Above, 3 similar casements with flat heads. Ground floor has 2 similar casements with altered glazing and to right, a similar casement with a double board door inserted below it. Block to rear of courtyard, late C19, 3 storeys; 7 window range. First floor has central door flanked by single windows, and to left, 2 more windows, all reglazed. To right, an adjoining building covering part of the front. Above, 7 windows arranged 2:3:2. All are 2-light glazing bar casements with slightly segmental heads, the 3 to left reglazed. Ground floor has a near central double board door and to right, 2 large segment-headed glazing bar casements, all under a flat canopy. To left, an adjoining single storey office building, linked to the main block by a flat-roofed addition. Right block, 2 storeys; 4 window range. Mid C19 brick ground floor with early C20 concrete first floor. 4 wooden glazing bar casements and below, a double board door flanked to left by a 3-light casement and to right by a door and window with overlight. To right, a mid C19 block, 2 storeys; 2 window range. Single plain sash, and to its right a larger 12 pane sash. Below, a small door. INTERIORS: rear range has central stone stair and wooden floors carried on cast-iron columns.

Listing NGR: SK3472187579

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