Albion Mill

ALBION MILL, ALBION STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268660
Date first listed:
13-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:
Albion Mill
Statutory Address:
ALBION MILL, ALBION STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268660
Date first listed:
13-Apr-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:
Albion Mill
Statutory Address 1:
ALBION MILL, ALBION STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ALBION MILL, ALBION 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 98350 56143

Details

LEEK

SJ9856SW ALBION STREET 611-1/6/10 (North side) 13/04/51 Albion Mill (Formerly Listed as: ALBION STREET Albion Silk Mills)

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Silk mill. Now in use as animal feed mill. c1815, Albion Street range extended to SW by a further range dated 1887 Flemish bond brickwork with blue headers, plain-tiled roof. Albion Street range red brick with blue brick and stone dressings. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 15-window range, with doorway in 4th bay from right. Reeded doorcase and plain fanlight. Windows all have stone cills and flat lintels; 24-pane sash windows to first floor, 16-pane sashes above. Some cast-iron fixed light windows (especially in King Street return) may be the original window form. Lower windows and many upper windows boarded over. Bell cupola with ogee leaded roof carried turned baluster supports to centre. Chimney in rear angle, a square-section base and cylindrical shaft with moulded cap. Return to King Street: 3-window range, then 2-storeyed block incorporating entrance to rear yard. Archway with stone voussoirs, and wide window boarded over above. Stone quoins to angles of ground floor only. Albion Street; 2 storeys, 6-window range with round-arched doorway with fanlight over to the left (dated in the keystone of the arch); Segmentally-arched lower windows with stone keys, and round-arched upper windows. Blue brick hoodmoulds and stone cills. 2 louvres in the roof. This extension itself extended soon after building, with angled corner and return to Spencer Avenue, comprising a 4-window range in a similar style. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SJ9835056143

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Legacy System number:
461584
Legacy System:
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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.

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