Framework knitters' workshop, now museum. c.1840 replacing a smaller worshop of c.1829. (1)

Two two-storey workshops purpose-built in 1829, rebuilt c.1860 face each other across a yard. (2)

A preservation fund has been established to purchase and restore the Chapel Street complex consisting of two framework knitters' shops with the hosier's cottage and store all on the one site, a now unique assemblage of buildings. Ruddington in Nottinghamshire doubled in size in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of the growth of framework knitting. There are still a number of framework knitting shops with their distinctive long windows indicating their origin, but the Chapel Street group is the only surviving example of a complete collection of buildings together on one site. The objects of the project are to purchase the property (a price has been agreed with the owner), restore the cottages and one frame shop, decorate one section as a replica stockingers' cottage room, and install in the remaining space machinery, written and fabricated evidence, illustrating the development of the industry from earliest times. Ultimately it is intended to restore and use the remaining buildings. (3)

Frameworkknitters' workshop, now museum. Circa 1840 replacing a smaller workshop of c.1829, restored c.1970. Red brick. Slateroof. 2 red brick stacks to the rear. 2 storeys, 3 bays.Central doorway with plank door under segmental arch. Eitherside are single 9 light glazing bar casements. Above is a singlesimilar 11 light casement and to the right a single similar 13light casement. Attached to the left and set back is a 2 baylean-to with 2 plank doors. Attached to the right is a range ofoutbuildings connected to further workshop, listed as a separateitem. Purchased in the C19 by William Parker, hosier. (4)

Recorded by NRIM, photographed. Recorded by JR Hammond, 21-Jan-1969, Record No.NT44. (5)

Part of monument M518.

Listed Buildings Slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

DOE, 1986, Dist of Rushcliffe (Listed Buildings) (Published document). SNT6210.

<1> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<2> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 301 (Monograph). SNT4.

<3> Cossons N and Hudson K (eds), 1971, Industrial Arch Guide (Published document). SNT183.

<4> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<5> Council for British Archaeology, 1963, National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards, No. NT44 (Index). SNT6095.