Latitude: 53.3877 / 53°23'15"N
Longitude: -1.4447 / 1°26'41"W
OS Eastings: 437026
OS Northings: 388011
OS Grid: SK370880
Mapcode National: GBR 9NH.TF
Mapcode Global: WHDDP.S36S
Plus Code: 9C5W9HQ4+34
Entry Name: Canalside Warehouse of GS Dilley and Sons
Listing Date: 13 June 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270724
English Heritage Legacy ID: 457545
ID on this website: 101270724
Location: Cricket Houses, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S4
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: Warehouse Architectural structure
SHEFFIELD
SK38NE EFFINGHAM ROAD 784-1/6/307 (South East side) 13/06/88 Canalside warehouse of GS Dilley & Sons
II
Iron warehouse. Mid C19, with later C19 additions. Built for the Firth family, steel makers. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled C20 corrugated iron roofs. L-plan, with taller gabled warehouse end-on to the canal and lower warehouse with hipped 2-span roof parallel to the canal to its right. EXTERIOR: canal side has continuous ashlar plinth. Gable to left has a blocked elliptical arched goods entrance with rusticated head and voussoirs. In the opposite gable, a blocked round-arched opening above, and an enlarged entrance below, with timber lintel. Range to right is open to roof but has 2 storeys of openings. Above, a central segment-headed window flanked by single flatter arched windows and beyond, single larger windows. All are bricked up. Below, 2 goods entrances, the left segment-headed, the right with girder lintel, and to left, a window. All are bricked up. Rear has central full-height segment-headed doorway with flanking buttresses, flanked by 2 round-headed windows, the left ones blocked and the right ones partly blocked. INTERIOR has king post truss roof, and narrow gauge rail track. The warehouses were used for the storage of bar iron from Sweden before it was processed in the cementation and crucible works. It is said to be the sole survivor of this type of warehouse in Sheffield. (An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 19; Barraclough K: Sheffield Steel: PLATES 23 & 24).
Listing NGR: SK3702688011
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