Kirks Factory With Chimney and Boilerhouse
KIRKS FACTORY WITH CHIMNEY AND BOILERHOUSE, NEWDIGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376498
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Kirks Factory With Chimney and Boilerhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KIRKS FACTORY WITH CHIMNEY AND BOILERHOUSE, NEWDIGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376498
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Kirks Factory With Chimney and Boilerhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRKS FACTORY WITH CHIMNEY AND BOILERHOUSE, NEWDIGATE 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:
- KIRKS FACTORY WITH CHIMNEY AND BOILERHOUSE, NEWDIGATE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56269 40471
Details
NOTTINGHAM SK 5640 SW NEWD I GATE STREET (Southeast side) 646-1/12/10017 Kirk's Factory with chimney and boilerhouse GV II Alternatively known as: Kirk¿s Factory with chimney and boilerhouse, RUSSELL STREET Tenement lace factory with chimney and boilerhouse, now warehouse. Dated 1872, with additions 1879 and 1894. Restored late C20. Red brick with blue brick, moulded brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Plinth, polychrome bands, elaborate dentillated eaves. Windows are mainly original cast-iron glazing bar casements, with moulded brick segmental heads and keystones. Ground floor and first floor windows boarded. 4 storeys plus attics; 17 x 10 bays, on corner site with rounded corner entrance bay. Entrance bay has a round-arched doorway with voussoirs and keystone double doors and fanlight. Above, single windows on each floor. The bay is topped with a moulded round-arched gable and finial containing a clock in a dated surround. Behind the gable, a wooden enclosure containing a bell. Both returns have regular fenestration. Left return, to Russell Street, has to left a moulded round-arched cart opening with keystone and double doors. Attics have clerestory with continuous glazing bar windows. Newdigate Street range has at the rear a rounded stair turret at each end, with an additional buttresses stair turret adjoining to the right. Third bay has hoist and loft doors. In yard to rear a boiler house, 2 storeys, 3 bays, has to left 2 blocked segment-arched first floor windows. Between boiler house and factory, an octagonal chimney stack with recessed top, approx 25m high. Like many lace factories, this building became a tobacco factory c1900.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470500
- 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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