Description

SHEFFIELD

784-1/0/10142 MARY STREET
03-DEC-04 104

II
Cutlery works. Late C19. Brick, painted, with slate roofs and brick end stacks to front range, rear wall stacks to rear ranges.
PLAN: U-shaped plan, with street frontage range and 2 ranges of attached workshops arranged around a narrow rectangular courtyard.
EXTERIOR: Mary Street elevation: 3 storeys, 6 bays the ground floor having a cart entrance now part blocked at left, with plain double doors, 3-light overlight and fascia above. Entrance with plain C20 door, overlight and plain stone lintel. 4 window [boarded up in 2003] with plain stone lintels and cills.
First floor has 6 4-pane sash windows with plain stone lintels and continuous cill band. Second floor has one 2-light and 6 3-light small-pane casement windows, closely set with continuous stone lintel and cill band.
Inner courtyard ranges of U-plan with 2-storey to east and 3-storey to west, both with monopitch roofs, rear wall stacks and casement windows with brick cills and lintels.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: In the early-C20 this works was occupied by W Harrison and Son, razor strop and case manufacturers.

Group value with 106-110 Mary Street adjacent.

SOURCES: 'One Great Workshop' The buildings of the Sheffield metal trades. English Heritage 2000.
104 Mary Street Sheffield. NBR No. 98259.

No.104 Mary Street is a near complete late C19 factory, displaying the distinctive architectural and plan form characteristics of the buildings associated with Sheffields'internationally-renowned metal trades. With the adjacent 106-110 Mary Street, it is forms a significant group of industrial buildings in one of the few city centre areas to retains some semblance of its former industrial character.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670545

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)