Listed Building: LACE AND SHAWL FACTORY, PRINTING ROOM AND GATEWAY (5.3.1)

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Grade II
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EH LBS Legacy ID 429320
Date assigned 14 April 1987
Date last amended

Description

Lace and shawl factory, printing room, waiting room and gateway. 1886 and 1892 and 1893. By J. Huckerby for F. Wilkinson. Brick with slate, asbestos, felt and concrete tile roofs. Ashlar and white brick dressings. Chamfered dentillated eaves. Crenellated towers. White brick crosslets and dressings. Single, 2 and 3 storeys, 10 plus 3 bays. Irregular L plan. Windows are pointed wooden casements and iron casements with segmental heads. Factory has to left, stair enclosure with a single opening on each floor. To west, adjoining lean-to winding shop with central door. To its left, casement flanked by single doors. To its right, 2 casements. Above, 2 floors each with 6 casements and single hoist door. Stepped central gable with cross finial and clock. South gable and rear elevation have regular fenestration. Adjoining printing room, to south west, has stepped south west gable with crosslets and 2 storey lean-to wings. Above, 2 casements, and above again, 3 casements, the central one largest. North side has 4 casements and door to right on each floor. Adjoining gateway has 2 octagonal piers with chamfered plinths, bands, crosslets and parapets. Pair of ornate wrought iron gates. Adjoining waiting room to left, single storey, 4 bays, has 4 pointed openings and crenellated parapet. Ref. Mason, S. A. Machine made lace in Beeston. Nottingham Industrial Archaeology Society Journal, Vol.10, part 2, Mar. 1985, pp.l-7 and fig. 10. (NCC/js)

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Grid reference Centred SK 52762 37164 (40m by 58m)
Map sheet SK53NW
District Broxtowe
Civil Parish Beeston and Stapleford, Broxtowe

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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