Description

SD 8332 NE,
906-1/15/22

BURNLEY,
BLACKBURN STREET (north side),
Warehouse occupied by Readers Scrap Metal Merchants

(Formerly Listed as: BLACKBURN STREET, Warehouse occupied by Wallace Reader & Son; Previously known as: Cuckoo Mill BLACKBURN STREET)

29/09/77

II

Small cotton spinning mill, now scrap metal warehouse.
Probably c1833. For John Hargreaves; altered. Coursed squared
sandstone, slate roof. Rectangular plan on east bank of River
Calder.
Three storeys over a semi-basement, 1:4 windows; to the left,
4-staged loading doors with C20 surrounds; to the right,
tiered doorways to the basement and the raised ground floor,
both with plain surrounds and the intermediate lintel with a
chamfered soffit; three windows at basement and ground-floor
levels and four on each floor above, the topmost now boarded, all
with plain sills and heads. Two tie-plates. Attached to the west
gable wall (overlooking the river) is a small 2-storey gabled
engine house, raised on iron columns. The east gable wall
incorporates stone slates of the gable end of a former row of
weavers cottages known as Club Houses, and above this are four
windows to the top floor and one in the gable above.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8379932761

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273554

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