Leavers Machine Shed at Draycott Mills
LEAVERS MACHINE SHED AT DRAYCOTT MILLS, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250092
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Leavers Machine Shed at Draycott Mills
- Statutory Address:
- LEAVERS MACHINE SHED AT DRAYCOTT MILLS, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250092
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Leavers Machine Shed at Draycott Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEAVERS MACHINE SHED 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:
- LEAVERS MACHINE SHED 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:
- SK4424833167
Details
SK 43 SW
1194-/3/10004
DRAYCOTT & CHURCH WILNE
MARKET STREET
(west side)
Leavers machine shed at Draycott Mills
II
GV
Cotton spinning mill, now lace factory. c1840-1850. Fireproof construction, brick and cast
iron, with rubbed brick and ashlar dressings. Flat roof behind coped parapet. Single storey, 4
x 2 bays. North and south sides have 4 segment arched cast iron glazing bar casements set in
segment arched recesses with rubbed brick heads. North east window replaced by late C20
double doors. East end adjoins the engine house of the front range. West end has 2 blank
recesses. Interior has in the centre 2 transverse cast iron beams carrying brick jack arches. At
each end, 3 lengthwise beams carrying smallerjack arches. 8 evenly spaced square skylights with
cast iron frames. 3 cast iron columns on the centre line, with bolting faces for lineshaft to run
transversely. The flat roof is said formerly to have been used as a water reservoir. This building
is part of an integrated works for the manufacture of cotton yarn and lace. This type of fireproof
construction is rare outside the cotton spinning districts of Greater Manchester. Single storey
fireproof buildings are extremely rare: the survey of Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester
recorded only two.
Listing NGR: SK4424833167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352027
- 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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