Cross Street Mills
CROSS STREET MILLS, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268622
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Street Mills
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS STREET MILLS, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268622
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Street Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS STREET MILLS, CROSS 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:
- CROSS STREET MILLS, CROSS 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 98898 56465
Details
LEEK
SJ9856SE CROSS STREET 611-1/7/52 (East side) Cross Street Mills
GV II
Silk mill, now offices. c1850-1860 and c1900. Brick with slate roofs, blue brick and stone dressings. 3 distinct blocks, all built to similar Free Classical style with Venetian polychromatic detail, but representing different phases of expansion on the site. EXTERIOR: central block a 3-storeyed 6-window range with stilted arched lower windows and round-arched upper windows. To its right, an advanced 3-storeyed 3-window range with balustraded parapet and steep Welsh slate roof to rear. This is possibly the earliest building on the site, c1850-60. Left-hand block (on corner with Well Street) probably the latest addition of c1900. 2 storeys, a 7-window range to Cross Street and curved angle to Well Street, the corner-bay stressed by giant pilasters. This corner-bay has triple window to ground floor and pedimented Venetian window above, with cartouche over flanked by coupled pilasters and inscribed 'Brough Nicholson and Hall est. 1815'. 7-window range has stilted arches to lower windows (the central window possibly formerly a doorway) and round-arched windows to first floor. Cill band below upper windows and cornice band above. The bays are articulated by brick pilasters with rusticated stone architraves. Stepped profile to parapet above. Decorative bands of blue brick and chequerwork brick. 10-window return range to Well Street with doorways in bays 3 and 7. Similar giant angle pilasters at corner, and similar openings (with some minor alterations). INTERIOR: partially fireproofed, with cast-iron columns but timber beams. The buildings are all that survive of the silk mills of Brough Nicholson and Hall, a noted local manufacturing firm.
Listing NGR: SJ9889856465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461627
- 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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