Description

SK 23 NW PARISH OF LONGFORD LONGFORD LANE
6/44 (South Side)
Longford Cheese Factory
GV II

Cheese factory, now workshop and store. 1870 with extensive later additions. Built
by a consortium of Derbyshire landowners under guidance of Cornelius Schermanhorn,
an American cheesemaker. Weatherboarded timber framing, with red brick additions
and slate roofs with overhanging eaves. Single storey and four bays with brick
additions to rear and to east side. North elevation has raised brick platform with steel
girders supporting weatherboarded canopy above, to west end of which is metal plaque
inscribed 'The first cheese factory built in England, opened May 4th 1870, under the
management of Cornelius Schermanhorn'. Behind the canopy the wall has central
double wooden sliding doors and to west a plank door. To east end is another large
wooden sliding door.
Beyond to east is a later advanced brick addition with fixed glazed window. All other
sides are blank. Interior mostly gone, See article in Country Life, Vol 133,
No 3440 February 6th 1963 by L B Powell 'England's first cheese factory'. Listed for
historical interest as the first purpose-built cheese factory in Britain.

Listing NGR: SK2196637457

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26619668

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