Rykneld Mill
RYKNELD MILL, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215910
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Rykneld Mill
- Statutory Address:
- RYKNELD MILL, BROOK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1215910
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Rykneld Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- RYKNELD MILL, BROOK 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:
- RYKNELD MILL, BROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Derby (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 34748 36699
Details
SK 3436 NE DERBY BROOK STREET
893/3/46 Rykneld Mill
24.02.1977 II*
Large silk mill. c1808, c1817, 1825 with mid and late C19 additions. Built for Thomas Bridgett. Original complex comprised weaving mill, throwing mill, ribbon mill and engine house with boiler house and chimney. Front street range comprised counting house, manager's house and public house. Red brick with slate roofs. South mill, former ribbon mill, 8 storey with pedimented parapets at either end. 12 windows long and 4 windows wide, all cast iron with glazing bars. North mill, former throwing mill, 7 storey with hipped slate roof, 9 windows with 2 windows set back to south. Middle mill, former weaving mill, 12 window 5 storey wing linking this block to the south mill. Most of the windows are cast iron with glazing bars. Office wing to north, former counting house, manager's house and public house, 3 storey with painted segmental arched opening into internal courtyard with single plain sashes above, that to the first floor with stucco lintel. 4 window section to left built in two sections, the far section now rendered, with some glazing bar sashes, built as the original mill manager's house. To right 7 window section with a single blocked doorway and a boarded door. Top floor has 5 small plain sashes. In courtyard the former engine house, boiler house and the base of the brick hexagonal chimney stack. INTERIOR has wooden beams to middle mill with re-used cast iron columns inserted in late C19 to strengthen floors. South mill has fire-proof construction with iron framed floors and brick arches. This building may well be the earliest fire-proof silk mill in England.
Listing NGR: SK3474836699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401099
- 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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