Description

Circa 1900. Built for Redpath Brown and Co, as St Andrew's Steelworks. English Renaissance office building. 2-storey 3-bay. Red sandstone ashlar to front, bull-faced rubble to side and rear with ashlar dressings. Band course and cornice. Balustrade. Stone mullions and transoms.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Architraved and corniced doorpiece, panel with RB and Co in centre of lintel, bipartite window above in pilaster-framed surround with segmental pediment. Full-height canted bays to each side with dividing cornices and Elizabethan 'hall' windows to ground, smaller windows at 1st floor, all mullioned and transomed, those at 1st floor flanked by single light transomed windows. Bays surmounted by parapets with round-arched panels bearing curved armorial reliefs.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: fenestration asymmetrical. Ashlar wallhead coping swept up at intervals.

NW: attached to neighbouring tenement.

SW: former steelworks adjoined by bricklink, not included in current listing.

Timber sash and case behind transoms to front, 8-pane sash and case to side, flat roof.

LOW WALL: coursed rubble-faced sandstone, moulded coping, corner piers with ball finials, ornate cast-iron railings enclosing shallow forecourts and angled to entrance doorway.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

OUTBUILDINGS: extensive later industrial/warehousing to S and E not included.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810312

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  For the Record
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6