Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar
Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar, Butterley Hill
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158931
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar
- Statutory Address:
- Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar, Butterley Hill
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158931
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar
- Statutory Address 1:
- Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar, Butterley Hill
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:
- Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar, Butterley Hill
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Amber Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 40127 51707
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 November 2022 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SK 45 SW
4/63
RIPLEY
BUTTERLEY HILL (south side)
Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar
(Formerly listed as 'Butterley Post Office and steps, 2 bollards and 1 cast iron pillar in the balustrade')
21.7.75
GV
II
Entrance building and attached steps, bollards and pillar. Early C19 with minor later alterations. Ashlar sandstone with hipped octagonal pitched felt roof with central octagonal stone stack and projecting eaves course. Single bay, octagonal plan, two storeys but built into the hill so first floor at street level. South elevation, from the works, has C20 door below plain lintel to left angled wall, central fixed pane window below plain lintel and with projecting sill, and three-light side sliding sash to right angled wall below large concave stone hood with drip-moulds to top. Above to centre a similar window to that below.
Right return has stone steps up to street with crested cast iron pillar to balustrade and two thin, cast iron bollards with rounded heads to top step. Street elevation has two casement windows and door on angled wall to east. Butterley Works were founded by Benjamin Outram c1790 to exploit the coal reserves in the surrounding area.
Source: Philip Rider 'The Butterley Company 1780-1830'.
Listing NGR: SK3996650878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79107
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Riden, P, The Butterley Company 1790-1830, (1990)
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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