Drayton Mills
DRAYTON MILLS, CHESHIRE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372063
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Drayton Mills
- Statutory Address:
- DRAYTON MILLS, CHESHIRE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372063
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Drayton Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRAYTON MILLS, CHESHIRE 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:
- DRAYTON MILLS, CHESHIRE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Market Drayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6729334536
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
SJ 6734
11/10002
MARKET DRAYTON
CHESHIRE STREET
Drayton Mills
GV
II
Corn mill. Circa 1898-9 for William Rogers, miller. Brick
Flettons with orange brick dressings. Slate roofs with
gabled ends.
PLAN: L-shaped plan with carriageway through front range.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. 6-bay front, the bays divided
by giant brick pilasters, righthand 3 bays are gabled. 6-pane
windows with top-opening lights and cement lintels.
Carriageway to left of centre with blue brick jambs. The
rear and side elevations have multi-pane cast-iron windows
with segmental arches in giant segmentally-headed recessed
panels and on the south side of the rear wing loading doors
on each floor, gabled at head with hoist-housing. Corrugated
asbestos first floor extension in angle at rear of front
range. Small louvred ventilators on ridge of roofs.
INTERIOR: The timber beams of the wooden floors are supported
on thin cast-iron columns. Queen-post roofs. Some of the feed
bins and seed cleaning and dressing machinery remain inside.
SOURCES: Kelly's Directory 1900. Rowley,N., People and Events.
Listing NGR: SJ6729334536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361566
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rowley, N, People and Events, ()
Kellys Directory in Herefordshire and Shropshire, (1900)
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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