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Latitude: 53.3944 / 53°23'39"N
Longitude: -1.4457 / 1°26'44"W
OS Eastings: 436957
OS Northings: 388760
OS Grid: SK369887
Mapcode National: GBR 9NF.M0
Mapcode Global: WHDDH.RYR5
Plus Code: 9C5W9HV3+QP
Entry Name: Atlas Works Offices
Listing Date: 14 September 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1247336
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456480
ID on this website: 101247336
Location: Burngreave, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S4
County: Sheffield
Electoral Ward/Division: Burngreave
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sheffield
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Ellesmere St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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.
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