Sheffield - Victoria Quays - Canal Basin - P1350315
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
Sheffield - Victoria Quays - Canal Basin - P1350315
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