LEAVERS MACHINE SHED AT DRAYCOTT MILLS

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:: LEAVERS MACHINE SHED AT DRAYCOTT MILLS, MARKET STREET

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 352027
Legacy System:: LBS

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