The Silk Mill (Georgian Crystal)
THE SILK MILL (GEORGIAN CRYSTAL), SILK MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376509
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Silk Mill (Georgian Crystal)
- Statutory Address:
- THE SILK MILL (GEORGIAN CRYSTAL), SILK MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376509
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Silk Mill (Georgian Crystal)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SILK MILL (GEORGIAN CRYSTAL), SILK MILL LANE
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:
- THE SILK MILL (GEORGIAN CRYSTAL), SILK MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tutbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 21168 28827
Details
SK 2028 TUTBURY SILK MILL LANE
171/4/10013 The Silk Mill (Georgian
Crystal)
II
Silk mill. Built in the early C18 for William Lombe. Flemish garden wall bond brick with header-bond rounded SE corner. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and corbelled brick eaves, the corbelling continued into the rounded SE corner. Truncated brick stack with set-offs on W gable end.
PLAN: Rectangular single-depth plan, the left end bay partitioned off.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5-bay south front, with small window openings with cambered brick arches and replacement window frames with glazing bars; ground floor left two wider doorways also with cambered arches and later doorway to right of centre. Right-hand corner rounded; window on each floor in gable ends. Rear [N] wall blind, except for two later ground floor windows.
INTERIOR: Ground floor chamfered axial and cross-beams with run-out stops and exposed unchamfered joists. First floor chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops and ceiled joists. Second floor open to 4-bay king-post roof, with pegged scarf-jointed purlins. None of the machinery survives.
NOTE: This silk mill was built in the early C18 by William Lombe, the brother of Sir Thomas Lombe who was the first to introduce silk-throwing machinery into England. Reputedly, it was driven by a treadmill.
Listing NGR: SK2116828827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470511
- 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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