Cotton Doubling Mill at Draycott Mills
COTTON DOUBLING MILL AT DRAYCOTT MILLS, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140154
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cotton Doubling Mill at Draycott Mills
- Statutory Address:
- COTTON DOUBLING MILL AT DRAYCOTT MILLS, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140154
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cotton Doubling Mill at Draycott Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTON DOUBLING MILL AT DRAYCOTT MILLS, MARKET STREET
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.
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:
- COTTON DOUBLING MILL AT DRAYCOTT MILLS, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Draycott and Church Wilne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 44252 33208
Details
The following building shall be added:
DRAYCOTT & CHURCH WILNE MARKET STREET SK 43 SW (west side) 1194- /3/10003 Cotton doubling mill at Draycott Mills II GV
Cotton doubling mill, now disused warehouse. 1800, built for Benjamin Towle. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. First floor sill band, coped parapet and gables. 2 storeys plus attics, 16 x 3 bays. Windows mostly boarded and some blocked, but originally segment headed cast iron casements with glazing bars. West side has regular fenestration, with an inserted door to right. East side has similar fenestration, with inserted double doors on each floor to the right, under a gable. Each end has a central gable topped with a coped stack and containing a lunette. Central door, that to north blocked, flanked by single windows. Above, 3 windows, the central one larger. South end has a bearing box, admitting drive from an adjacent building, and an iron lamp bracket at the south east corner. This building is part of an integrated works for the manufacture of cotton yarn and lace. It is also an early example of a doubling mill powered other than by water.
Listing NGR: SK4425233208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352026
- 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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