CULTURAL INDUSTRIES QUARTER CONSERVATION AREA

Published 31 October 2022 at 12:32pm

The Cultural Industries Quarter Conservation Area (CIQ) is located between Sheffield City Centre and the Midland Station. 
The area is bounded by the main roads of Arundel Gate and Eyre Street along the west, and part of the ring road on St Mary's Road to the south. 
The eastern boundary takes in Leadmill Road, Cross Turner Street and Sheaf Street and includes Howard Street to the north, next to the Sheffield Hallam University.
The area enclosed by these streets contain the surviving remnants of the 18th Century development on the Duke of Norfolk's Estate and later 19th Century expansion along the Porter Brook to the south and south east.
The area contains special elements that make up the conservation area. These include:

• surviving elements of the grid pattern and hierarchy of different streets which grew up across the 18th Century estate of the Duke of Norfolk
• six distinctive character areas which make up the CIQ as a whole
• important metal trades area of Sheffield characterised by numerous examples of 'Little Mesters' (craftsmen in cutlery and tool making) in mixed residential and small-scale industrial workshop buildings often arranged in courtyard form 
• sixteen listed buildings, eg. the Grade II* Butchers Wheel, and Grade II Stirling Works
• several unlisted significant buildings, eg the distinctive former 1930s Art Deco styled 'Kenning's car garage' now Showroom Cinema and Workstation offices
• surviving industrial chimneys add interest to rooflines
• 3-4 storey buildings with back of pavement boundaries characteristic of the area
• historic floors and distinctive red brick used as main building material
• archaeology around Porter Brook provides evidence of early water powered mills in area.

South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) funding: Brownfield Housing Fund
Sheffield City Council has secured funding of £0.350m from SYMCA’s Brownfields Housing Fund to enable clearance works to take place in the Cultural Industries Quarter.
The project involves the demolition of a two-store building that was vacant/semi-derelict (with adjoining land which was used for car parking), to provide a cleared site that is ready for development.  On completion of clearance work, Sheffield City Council will seek developer interest for housing targeted at young workers, potentially via a build-to-rent development.  The site is estimated to have the potential to accommodate up to 200 one- and two bedroom apartments, alongside a section of the Porter Brook, which then runs via and under the railway station.

Landowner: Sheffield City Council
Developer: N/A
Project value: TBC
Type of project: Residential with 200 potential units.
New jobs created: TBC

For more information visit Sheffield City Council's website.