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Latitude: 53.3645 / 53°21'52"N
Longitude: -1.5246 / 1°31'28"W
OS Eastings: 431734
OS Northings: 385396
OS Grid: SK317853
Mapcode National: GBR 93R.LQ
Mapcode Global: WHCCJ.KP7L
Plus Code: 9C5W9F7G+Q5
Entry Name: Shepherd Wheel and Attached Dam Goit and Weir
Listing Date: 28 June 1973
Last Amended: 12 December 1995
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255068
English Heritage Legacy ID: 458649
Also known as: The Shepherd Wheel
ID on this website: 101255068
Location: Greystones Cliffe, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11
County: Sheffield
Electoral Ward/Division: Fulwood
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sheffield
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Ranmoor St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
SHEFFIELD
SK38NW HANGINGWATER ROAD
784-1/5/401 (East side)
28/06/73 Shepherd Wheel and attached dam,
goit and weir
(Formerly Listed as:
HANGING WATER ROAD
Shepherd's Wheel (with wall to dam
and spillway))
II*
2 grinding hulls, now museum, and adjoining dam, goit and
weir. c1780, restored c1960. Coursed squared stone with stone
slate roof and single brick gable and single stone side wall
stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 single storey ranges, 4 and 3 bays. Larger range,
to left, has a single light window flanked by single 2-light
windows, and to left, a 3-light window. All have glazing bars
and plank shutters. Right gable has to left a plank door with
stone lintel. Left gable has an external stair made of
discarded grindstones. Smaller range, to right, has a central
plank door and at the rear, three renewed 2-light barred
windows with wooden mullions. At the rear, a renewed wooden
pentrough feeding an iron overshot wheel approx 3m diameter.
To west, dam with curved retaining wall approx 160m long, with
a narrow spillway close to the buildings. At the west end, an
early diversion weir under a road bridge, diverting water into
a short head goit.
INTERIOR has in the main hull a cast-iron spur wheel driving 5
grindstones, with a shaft and belt connection to 4 similar
stones in the small hull. This machinery is complete and in
working order.
HISTORICAL NOTE: there has been a grinding hull on this site
from c1584, and the existing buildings were in use from the
late C18 till c1930 for the grinding of table and pocket
knives. Shepherd's Wheel is an outstanding example of the
single process small scale units which characterised the
Sheffield cutlery industry.
(Shepherd Wheel 1584-1984: Peatman J: Sheffield: 1984-; Water
Power on the Sheffield Rivers: Crossley D: Sheffield: 1989-:
74).
Listing NGR: SK3173485396
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