London Mill
LONDON MILL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268663
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- London Mill
- Statutory Address:
- LONDON MILL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268663
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- London Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONDON MILL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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:
- LONDON MILL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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 98919 56421
Details
LEEK
SJ9856SE ASHBOURNE ROAD 611-1/7/13 (North side) 18/04/91 London Mill (Formerly Listed as: ASHBOURNE ROAD London Mill inc. Area Railings to S & Chimney Stack immediately NNE)
GV II
Silk mill. Dated 1853. Brick with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 19- window range (8-3-8) with advanced pedimented central bay stressed with stone quoins. Clock in apex of pediment with date each side. Central doorway in shallow pedimented architrave with acroteria. 20-pane iron windows, some with central opening lights, with flat-arched stone heads and stone cills. Overhanging eaves. Some renewed or inserted loading doors in right-hand gable return. Cast-iron fire escape stairs and doors in upper right-hand bay and in lower gable return, possibly later C19 additions. INTERIOR: has high first floor, possibly built to accommodate Jacquard looms. Cast-iron columns support single longitudinal beam. Truncated chimney detached to rear also dated 1853; engine and boiler houses to rear, but power transmission system largely secondary, with only slight evidence for original system.
Listing NGR: SJ9891956421
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461587
- 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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