FRAMEWORK KNITTERS' COTTAGES NOW PART OF MUSEUM COMPLEX

FRAMEWORK KNITTERS' COTTAGES NOW PART OF MUSEUM COMPLEX, CHAPEL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1373930
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS' COTTAGES NOW PART OF MUSEUM COMPLEX
Statutory Address:: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS' COTTAGES NOW PART OF MUSEUM COMPLEX, CHAPEL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1373930
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS' COTTAGES NOW PART OF MUSEUM COMPLEX
Statutory Address 1:: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS' COTTAGES NOW PART OF MUSEUM COMPLEX, CHAPEL STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS' COTTAGES NOW PART OF MUSEUM COMPLEX, CHAPEL STREET

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County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Rushcliffe (District Authority)
Parish:: Ruddington
National Grid Reference:: SK 57170 32963

Details

SK 53 SE RUDDINGTON CHAPEL STREET (south side)

5/98 Framework Knitters' cottages now part of Museum complex

G.V. II

4 cottages, now single cottage and museum. c.1829, built by a speculative builder, restored c.1970. Red brick stretchers, pink headers. Pantile roof. 2 red brick ridge stacks. Dentil eaves. Outer single 2 up, 2 down cottages and central single pair of one up, one down back to back cottages. 2 storeys plus garret, 7 bays. Having from left to right a doorway with plank door, a single tripartite glazing bar casement, a single small glazing bar casement, a similar doorway and door, 2 similar tripartite casements and a similar doorway and door. All apart from the small casement under segmental arches. Above are 3 glazing bar casements in enlarged openings being originally segmental arched glazing bar casements. The only remaining range of cottages in this complex built specifically to house the workers of the adjacent framework knitters' workshops. Single cottage occupied shortly after completion by the knitter, Samuel Parker, the buildings later purchased by his son William, also a knitter, but later a hosier. A further generation of the Parker family occupied the site, vacating it in 1929.

Listing NGR: SK5717032963

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.