This site is first depicted as a 'Paint and Varnish Works' on the 1938 OS 25 inch mapping although the present buildings were almost completely rebuilt in 1941 following their destruction during the Sheffield Blitz of December 1941 (www.tilthammer.com). The buildings are a late example of a typical Sheffield works with long narrow ranges around a central courtyard accessed through a dramatic central entrance. To the rear of the works earlier buildings have been replaced by later 20th century warehouses. No legibility of earlier landscapes. The plot is bounded to the south by the 1870s Midland Railway.