Chimney at SE 14942 16846
Turnbridge Mills, Quay Street, Huddersfield, HD1 6QT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409815
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Chimney at SE 14942 16846
- Statutory Address:
- Turnbridge Mills, Quay Street, Huddersfield, HD1 6QT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409815
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Chimney at SE 14942 16846
- Statutory Address 1:
- Turnbridge Mills, Quay Street, Huddersfield, HD1 6QT
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:
- Turnbridge Mills, Quay Street, Huddersfield, HD1 6QT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1494216846
Summary
Architecturally ornamented textile mill chimney of circa 1872.
Reasons for Designation
The chimney at Turnbridge Mills is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural Interest: a good example of elegant architectural treatment applied to a utilitarian industrial structure in the mid-Victorian period.
* Setting: the chimney forms a prominent landmark feature of Huddersfield's skyline and contributes to the setting of the adjacent scheduled Turn Bridge (NHLE 1005793) across the Huddersfield Broad Canal.
* Group Value: with the buildings of Turnbridge Mills, that to the south of Quay Street being listed Grade II (NHLE 1231214).
History
The chimney is thought to have been built circa 1872 as part of a cotton spinning mill for the Hirst Brothers. By the 1893 Ordnance Survey map, the mill was part of Turnbridge Mills which included an1846 textile mill on the south side of Quay Street, Huddersfield (Grade II NHLE 1231214). Turnbridge Mills passed into the ownership of JL Brierley Ltd. in 1895.
Details
MATERIALS: hammer dressed sandstone with a brick inner lining.
EXTERIOR: the chimney is octagonal in cross-section, standing to over 30 metres tall. It is divided into unequal stages by three string courses: one of plain ashlar marks the base of the chimney while two of roll mouldings form a frieze towards the top of the chimney with slim recessed panels in each face. It is topped by a decorative, oversailing cap supported on paired consoles.
Sources
Books and journals
Minter, G, E, , Discovering Old Huddersfield, (1995)
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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