The Big Mill
THE BIG MILL, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268581
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Big Mill
- Statutory Address:
- THE BIG MILL, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268581
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Big Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BIG MILL, MILL 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:
- THE BIG MILL, MILL 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 97966 56749
Details
LEEK
SJ95NE MILL STREET 611-1/1/92 (South West side) 07/06/72 The Big Mill (Formerly Listed as: MILL STREET The Big Mill (Perry Lustre Ltd))
GV II
Silk mill. c1860. By William Sugden. Brick with stone dressings, and low-pitched or flat roof not visible. Italianate style. Narrow in plan with 5-window returns. EXTERIOR: 6 storeys, 21-window range. Advanced central 7-storeyed stair tower with arcaded upper storey and overhanging, shallow pyramidal roof. Rusticated quoins and window surrounds to tower, with plain string courses, and moulded cornice over the 6th storey. Shallow projecting bays each side of tower, (possibly built as privy towers?). Fenestration elsewhere has iron-framed windows with continuous stone cills and flat stone lintels, with round-arched windows forming an arcade to ground floor. Central doorway in base of tower with concave reveal with round-arched head, heavy key block and fanlight. Angles stressed by pilasters. Cornice and parapet. Engine and boiler house to rear, but only slight evidence of original power transmission. INTERIOR: not inspected. The mill is an important example of large-scale building for the silk industry, and represents one of the earliest mill buildings on this scale in Leek. It is also a good example of the mill-style developed by William Sugden, the leading mill architect at work in Leek at this time.
Listing NGR: SJ9796656749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461666
- 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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