Former Donington Mill

The Millhouse Business Centre, Station Road, Castle Donington, DE74 2NJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074162
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: Former Donington Mill
Statutory Address:: The Millhouse Business Centre, Station Road, Castle Donington, DE74 2NJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074162
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1989
List Entry Name:: Former Donington Mill
Statutory Address 1:: The Millhouse Business Centre, Station Road, Castle Donington, DE74 2NJ

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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Location

Statutory Address:: The Millhouse Business Centre, Station Road, Castle Donington, DE74 2NJ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Leicestershire
District:: North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
Parish:: Castle Donington
National Grid Reference:: SK 44760 27828

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 3 April 2024 to amend details in the description and add source

SK 4427-4527 9/104

CASTLE DONINGTON STATION ROAD The Millhouse Business Centre Former Donington Mill

(formerly listed as Donington Mill, STATION ROAD)

II

Silk mill. Erected 1870-71 for John Watson and Son, silk throwsters. Red brick with roughcast plinth and hipped tarred slate roof. Rectangular eighteen-bay range with entrance, offices and staircase at north end and second stairs in turret at rear of south end.

Long two-storey range of eighteen bays. Polychrome brick band course at first floor level, with moulded stone sill to upper windows. Moulded brick eaves. Four centre bays are slightly advanced and pedimented, with keyblocks over windows. Very large windows with cast iron glazing bars and segmental heads, indicating importance of light for industry. Central pediment has flush strings of blue brick, the upper arched over clock with keyblock. Below clock is a short moulded stone string with carved stops. Verge of pediment is moulded and has nailhead ornament. C20 buttresses between bays two and three. Left end has three bays of similar windows all with keyblocks. Centre of ground floor is advanced to form porch over double doors. Doors are set in recessed arch of chamfered brick, with moulded stone capitals to side piers. Porch has moulded stone cornice and ball finials. Rear (east) elevation similar to front, but without pediment and largely unaltered except for a few blocked and altered window openings now inside large C20 extensions.

Interior: wooden floor supported on cast-iron columns, two replaced with RSJs. The floor in second bay from south end removed for late C20 machinery. Original wooden king-post roof structure.

Listing NGR: SK4476027828

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 358151
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Kellys Directory' in Leicestershire Rutland Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, (1877)
'District News: Castle Donnington' in Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, (08 April 1870), p. 7
'Castle Donnington: The Church School Treat' in Leicester Journal, (18 August 1871), p. 8

Legal

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