Workshop Ranges and Crucible Furnace, Sheffield, South Yorkshire

These workshops, furnace and houses were constructed in c1840. These buildings form the best surviving example of the small scale integrated steel and cutlery works, characteristic of the cutlery and edge tool trades which developed in the city in the 19th century. The complex included both primary steel production in the crucible furnace and final product finishing in the adjacent workshops.

Location

South Yorkshire Sheffield

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

Tags

industry work house housing Victorian (1837 - 1901)