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Victorian-style back-to-back terraced houses are set to return to Sheffield city centre but with 21st century home comforts. Back-to-backs are a style of terraced houses that were built from the later 18th-century to the early 20th-century. Thousands of these homes were built during the Industrial Revolution for the rapidly increasing population of expanding factory towns.
Insider Media reports that plans for the first Sky-House Co. development in the city centre have been submitted to Sheffield Council by Coda Planning, for a site at Egerton Street, which used to be home to the now vacant Stokes Tiles warehouse.
The proposed development includes 50 properties, including 30 three and four-bedroom Sky-House homes and 20 one-bedroom apartments, along with two commercial units.
The Victorian back-to-backs were built as cheaply and quickly as possible for the impoverished working class, leading to housing standards being sub-standard. The configuration did not allow for adequate ventilation or sanitation, with toilets and water supplies being shared with multiple households in enclosed courtyards.
Back-to-backs were seen as having poor levels of health and hygiene, and by the mid-19th-century, they were deemed unsatisfactory and a hazard to health. The building of new back-to-backs was banned as part of the Public Health Act 1875, although some cities such as Leeds continued to construct them until the 1930s.
Coda Planning and Sky-House Co. director David Cross says the development could give a £9 million boost to the city economy.
The Sky-House reimagining of the Victorian back-to-back terraced house has been designed by architects at Coda Studios, and include bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, open plan kitchen/diners and private roof gardens accessed from a private study area. Each property will have a private patio, and there will be courtyard parking and communal play areas outside.
To meet net-zero emissions targets, the development will be carbon neutral during construction and will make use of the latest eco-features, including steel frame structures, air source heat recovery pumps, and solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity.
Sky-House already has developments at Waverley and Oughtibridge and each one is designed differently so that it fits in with the neighbourhood.
Cross said: “Following the Sky-House Co success at Waverley and major developments in Oughtibridge and Stocksbridge, we are confident that now is the ideal time to bring Sky-House to Sheffield city centre and Egerton Street is the ideal location.
“The development is aimed at families and urbanites and even though it is so central, it actually sits within the Silverdale School catchment area.”
He added that he believes the development will provide a £9 million boost to the local economy, creating many opportunities within the development’s ‘buy-local’ ethos, as well as new apprenticeships and jobs.
“This is a project that will deliver a true family housing development and one that could bring a real sense of regeneration too.”
Planning officers are considering the application.
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