Description

LEEK

SJ9856SW STRANGMAN STREET
611-1/6/135 (South side)
03/02/93 Wellington Mill

GV II

Silk mill. Dated 1853. Extended later C19 and early C20. Built
for Thomas Whittles. Brick with slate roof. Main manufacturing
block with ancillary buildings including engine house, boiler
house etc. to rear.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 14-window range, with slightly advanced
central pediment occupying 4 bays. Doorway in round-arched
painted stone architrave towards the right of this elevation.
Iron-framed windows with stone cills and flat-arched brick
heads. Stone copings to gables and pediment, which is dated
with the name of the mill in a painted stone panel at the
apex. Projecting privy tower on rear elevation.
E of the main range, a later extension (c1860?), also brick
with slate roof. 3-storeyed, 3-window range. This adjoins a
further range originally c1860 but extensively reconstructed
c1950, retaining the roof structure, gable walls with rear
stair-turret, but rebuilding the side walls and internal
structure: Original gable wall facing street, 4 storeys,
4-window range with doorway to left. Gabled engine and boiler
houses etc. to rear of main mill range, and tapering octagonal
chimney. A series of early C20 dyeing rooms to the rear.
INTERIOR: internal structure of main mill block has transverse
timber beams with no intermediate supports.

Listing NGR: SJ9811656397

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558848

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)