Sheffield - Victoria Quays - Canal Basin - P1350290

Victoria Quays - Terminal & Grain Warehouses

 

Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, Sheffield Canal Basin.

 

Terminal & Grain Warehouses

 

Terminal Warehouse, c1812-1819.

 

Grade ll* listed.

 

When the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, some four miles long, was opened on 22 February 1819, the Terminal Warehouse was one of the largest buildings in Sheffield. It was designed so that a keel could enter the building to be unloaded and loaded in the dry and provided secure storage for a wide variety of goods, including foodstuffs, on the upper floors.

 

 

The building is of brick with large stone-dressed arched openings at the ground floor, one forming the boat hole enabling goods to be hoisted from keels directly to the upper floors.

 

 

Grain Warehouse, c1889.

 

Grade ll listed.

 

Built by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company to store grain brought into the town by barge before it was taken to the local corn mills and breweries. The canopy projecting 0ver the basin and the enclosed hoists ensured the grain was kept dry as it was unloaded. Grain was winched to the roofspace from where it was distributed into timber hoppers inserted in 1925, that occupied the total envelope of the building prior to restoration in 1994-95.

 

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Victoria Quays - Terminal Warehouse.

 

Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, Sheffield Canal Basin.

 

Terminal Warehouse, c1812-1819.

Grade ll* listed.

 

When the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, some four miles long, was opened on 22 February 1819, the Terminal Warehouse was one of the largest buildings in Sheffield. It was designed so that a keel could enter the building to be unloaded and loaded in the dry and provided secure storage for a wide variety of goods, including foodstuffs, on the upper floors.

 

The building is of brick with large stone-dressed arched openings at the ground floor, one forming the boat hole enabling goods to be hoisted from keels directly to the upper floors.

 

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TERMINAL WAREHOUSE, CANAL WHARF

 

Grade II* Listed

 

List Entry Number: 1247016

 

 

Details

 

SHEFFIELD

 

SK3587NE CANAL WHARF 784-1/20/136 (East side) 18/08/71 Terminal Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: EXCHANGE STREET Canal Wharf Depot)

 

GV II*

 

Canal warehouse. c1819, with mid C20 alterations, restored 1994. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Plinth, quoins to ground floor, first floor band, coped pedimented gables.

 

EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus attics; 11 x 7 windows. Symmetrical canal side has a slightly projecting centre, 7 windows, under a pediment. Regular fenestration with glazing bar sashes, mostly reglazed. Central full height round-headed recess to the upper floors, with a loft door on each floor. Above it, a half-round window. Ground floor has a segmental arched rusticated opening for boats, flanked by single round-headed rusticated openings, now blocked. Beyond, on either side, 2 windows. Rear elevation, to wharf, has similar fenestration, the right side largely covered by a 2 storey mid C19 addition. Symmetrical south gable has tall elliptical arched recesses in the central, second and sixth bays, the central one being taller. These have loft doors on each floor of the outer bays and on the top floor of the central bay. Ground floor has a central rusticated elliptical arched cart opening flanked by smaller blocked elliptical arched openings.

 

INTERIOR not inspected. A good example of a specialised canal building. Building vacant at time of survey.

 

Listing NGR: SK3598987647

 

 

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1247016

 

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