Wellington Mill
WELLINGTON MILL, STRANGMAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268546
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WELLINGTON MILL, STRANGMAN STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03521/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268546
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLINGTON MILL, STRANGMAN 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:
- WELLINGTON MILL, STRANGMAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98116 56397
Details
LEEK
SJ9856SW STRANGMAN STREET 611-1/6/135 (South side) 03/02/93 Wellington Mill
GV II
Silk mill. Dated 1853. Extended later C19 and early C20. Built for Thomas Whittles. Brick with slate roof. Main manufacturing block with ancillary buildings including engine house, boiler house etc. to rear. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 14-window range, with slightly advanced central pediment occupying 4 bays. Doorway in round-arched painted stone architrave towards the right of this elevation. Iron-framed windows with stone cills and flat-arched brick heads. Stone copings to gables and pediment, which is dated with the name of the mill in a painted stone panel at the apex. Projecting privy tower on rear elevation. E of the main range, a later extension (c1860?), also brick with slate roof. 3-storeyed, 3-window range. This adjoins a further range originally c1860 but extensively reconstructed c1950, retaining the roof structure, gable walls with rear stair-turret, but rebuilding the side walls and internal structure: Original gable wall facing street, 4 storeys, 4-window range with doorway to left. Gabled engine and boiler houses etc. to rear of main mill range, and tapering octagonal chimney. A series of early C20 dyeing rooms to the rear. INTERIOR: internal structure of main mill block has transverse timber beams with no intermediate supports.
Listing NGR: SJ9811656397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461709
- 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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