Description

SHEFFIELD

SK3487NE SOLLY STREET
784-1/18/667 (North West side)
13/06/88 Nos.216 AND 218
with workshop ranges to rear

II

Cutlery and silverware workshops and offices. c1860 and c1890,
with early and mid C20 alterations and additions. Brick with
rendered left return, ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 6
gable and 4 side wall stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 2 storeys; 4 window range. Office block
fronting street, with workshops at the rear forming an
incomplete quadrilateral. Office block has plinth and
sillbands to each floor, and openings with multi-keystone
lintels, all painted. Gutter on shaped wooden brackets. Three
12 pane sashes and to right, a larger tripartite sash. Above,
four 9 pane sashes, the second one blank. Off-centre
segment-arched cart opening with header brick arch and stone
cornice. On the frieze, the inscription "James Lodge Ltd.". To
left, two 12 pane sashes, the lower lights blocked. To right,
a doorway with eared architrave and cornice, with moulded 4
panel door and overlight. To its right, a 12 pane sash. At the
rear, the office block has four 12 pane sashes and above, six
C20 windows.
Workshop block to left of courtyard, mid C19, 3 storeys; 3
window range. Three 3-light glazing bar casements with slight
segmental heads. Above, 3 similar casements with flat heads.
Ground floor has 2 similar casements with altered glazing and
to right, a similar casement with a double board door inserted
below it.
Block to rear of courtyard, late C19, 3 storeys; 7 window
range. First floor has central door flanked by single windows,
and to left, 2 more windows, all reglazed. To right, an
adjoining building covering part of the front. Above, 7
windows arranged 2:3:2. All are 2-light glazing bar casements
with slightly segmental heads, the 3 to left reglazed. Ground
floor has a near central double board door and to right, 2
large segment-headed glazing bar casements, all under a flat
canopy. To left, an adjoining single storey office building,
linked to the main block by a flat-roofed addition.
Right block, 2 storeys; 4 window range. Mid C19 brick ground
floor with early C20 concrete first floor. 4 wooden glazing
bar casements and below, a double board door flanked to left
by a 3-light casement and to right by a door and window with
overlight. To right, a mid C19 block, 2 storeys; 2 window
range. Single plain sash, and to its right a larger 12 pane
sash. Below, a small door.
INTERIORS: rear range has central stone stair and wooden
floors carried on cast-iron columns.

Listing NGR: SK3472187579

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539690

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