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Chauntry Clothing Mills

A Grade II Listed Building in Haverhill, Suffolk

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Latitude: 52.0819 / 52°4'54"N

Longitude: 0.438 / 0°26'16"E

OS Eastings: 567151

OS Northings: 245416

OS Grid: TL671454

Mapcode National: GBR NCX.HJS

Mapcode Global: VHJH9.JXWX

Plus Code: 9F423CJQ+P5

Entry Name: Chauntry Clothing Mills

Listing Date: 9 May 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375519

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466417

ID on this website: 101375519

Location: Haverhill, West Suffolk, CB9

County: Suffolk

District: West Suffolk

Civil Parish: Haverhill

Built-Up Area: Haverhill

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Haverhill St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description



HAVERHILL

TL6745 HIGH STREET
816-1/5/18 (South West side)
09/05/73 Chauntry Clothing Mills

II

Three factories, warehouse and engine house; part now offices.
Factories of 1856 and 1865; warehouse of 1856; engine house
probably 1880. Factory of 1865 in minimal French Gothic style.
Buildings of red brick under glazed or slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: original factory is single-storey range with roof of
serrated section and formerly lit through 14 sash windows.
Warehouse of same date immediately east: 3-storey 8-window
range of recessed sashes with glazing bars and hipped roof:
2-window range to east return.
Extending north, a single-storey factory, now mostly offices:
6-window range.
Factory of 1865 extending south from warehouse, of 3 storeys,
rising to 4 at north end, 14-window range: ground floor with
three stilted entrances under 4-centred arches. Ground- and
first-floor fenestration of 2-light casements, second-floor
windows alternating between 2-light casements and taller
single-light casements under pointed arches in pointed gables.
2-storey engine house at north-east corner of new factory,
with hipped roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but steam engine remains.
In 1880, a 120 hp. Single cylinder horizontal mill steam
engine was installed.
The first factory was constructed for the production of
drabbet, the second for the manufacture of gloves.
(Crouch P: Haverhill Town Trail: Haverhill: 1981-: 10-11).

Listing NGR: TL6715145416

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