Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE SAVILE STREET EAST
784-1/6/645 (North West side)
14/09/92 Atlas Works Offices

GV II

Formerly known as: Queen's Works offices SAVILE STREET EAST.
Steel works offices. 1853, with mid C20 alterations. Partly
demolished and refurbished late C20. For Armitage, Frankish &
Barker, steel manufacturers. Brick with ashlar dressings and
gabled and hipped slate roofs with various stacks.
EXTERIOR: plinth, first-floor band, moulded wooden gutter and
eaves band with modillions. 2 storeys; 20 window range.
To left, a narrow bay with a single plain sash on each floor.
To right, a single bay with coped parapet and a round-arched
plain sash. To right again, 4 similar round-arched windows
flanked by brick pilasters. To right, a segment-headed war
memorial panel and a segment-headed glazing bar window.
To right again, main range, 2 storeys, with 18 glazing bar
sashes on the first floor and 18 segment-headed windows below,
all with wooden frames.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the Queen's Works, these buildings
were bought in 1856 by John Brown and renamed the Atlas Works.
They formed part of Firth-Brown industrial group, which
pioneered the manufacture of cheap bulk steel in Britain, and
manufactured steel rails and armour plate.
Building vacant at time of survey.
(An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation
Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 25; Recc. from Trades
Historical Society).

Listing NGR: SK3695788760

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539657

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)