Description

LEEK

SJ9856SW ALBION STREET
611-1/6/10 (North side)
13/04/51 Albion Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBION STREET
Albion Silk Mills)

GV II

Silk mill. Now in use as animal feed mill. c1815, Albion
Street range extended to SW by a further range dated 1887
Flemish bond brickwork with blue headers, plain-tiled roof.
Albion Street range red brick with blue brick and stone
dressings. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 15-window range, with doorway in 4th bay
from right. Reeded doorcase and plain fanlight. Windows all
have stone cills and flat lintels; 24-pane sash windows to
first floor, 16-pane sashes above. Some cast-iron fixed light
windows (especially in King Street return) may be the original
window form. Lower windows and many upper windows boarded
over. Bell cupola with ogee leaded roof carried turned
baluster supports to centre. Chimney in rear angle, a
square-section base and cylindrical shaft with moulded cap.
Return to King Street: 3-window range, then 2-storeyed block
incorporating entrance to rear yard. Archway with stone
voussoirs, and wide window boarded over above. Stone quoins to
angles of ground floor only.
Albion Street; 2 storeys, 6-window range with round-arched
doorway with fanlight over to the left (dated in the keystone
of the arch); Segmentally-arched lower windows with stone
keys, and round-arched upper windows. Blue brick hoodmoulds
and stone cills. 2 louvres in the roof. This extension itself
extended soon after building, with angled corner and return to
Spencer Avenue, comprising a 4-window range in a similar
style.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ9835056143

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558959

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