Warehouse Occupied By Readers Scrap Metal Merchants
WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY READERS SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS, BLACKBURN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022629
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Warehouse Occupied By Readers Scrap Metal Merchants
- Statutory Address:
- WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY READERS SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS, BLACKBURN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022629
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Warehouse Occupied By Readers Scrap Metal Merchants
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY READERS SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS, BLACKBURN STREET
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAREHOUSE OCCUPIED BY READERS SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS, BLACKBURN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83799 32761
Details
SD 8332 NE,
906-1/15/22
BURNLEY,
BLACKBURN STREET (north side),
Warehouse occupied by Readers Scrap Metal Merchants
(Formerly Listed as: BLACKBURN STREET, Warehouse occupied by Wallace Reader & Son; Previously known as: Cuckoo Mill BLACKBURN STREET)
29/09/77
II
Small cotton spinning mill, now scrap metal warehouse.
Probably c1833. For John Hargreaves; altered. Coursed squared
sandstone, slate roof. Rectangular plan on east bank of River
Calder.
Three storeys over a semi-basement, 1:4 windows; to the left,
4-staged loading doors with C20 surrounds; to the right,
tiered doorways to the basement and the raised ground floor,
both with plain surrounds and the intermediate lintel with a
chamfered soffit; three windows at basement and ground-floor
levels and four on each floor above, the topmost now boarded, all
with plain sills and heads. Two tie-plates. Attached to the west
gable wall (overlooking the river) is a small 2-storey gabled
engine house, raised on iron columns. The east gable wall
incorporates stone slates of the gable end of a former row of
weavers cottages known as Club Houses, and above this are four
windows to the top floor and one in the gable above.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD8379932761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467000
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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