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Latitude: 52.8565 / 52°51'23"N
Longitude: -1.6871 / 1°41'13"W
OS Eastings: 421168
OS Northings: 328827
OS Grid: SK211288
Mapcode National: GBR 5D1.SC2
Mapcode Global: WHCFZ.1GXG
Plus Code: 9C4WV847+J5
Entry Name: The Silk Mill (Georgian Crystal)
Listing Date: 14 September 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376509
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470511
ID on this website: 101376509
Location: Tutbury, East Staffordshire, DE13
County: Staffordshire
District: East Staffordshire
Civil Parish: Tutbury
Built-Up Area: Tutbury
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Tutbury St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Mill building
SK 2028 TUTBURY SILK MILL LANE
171/4/10013 The Silk Mill (Georgian
Crystal)
II
Silk mill. Built in the early C18 for William Lombe. Flemish garden wall bond brick with header-bond rounded SE corner. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and corbelled brick eaves, the corbelling continued into the rounded SE corner. Truncated brick stack with set-offs on W gable end.
PLAN: Rectangular single-depth plan, the left end bay partitioned off.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5-bay south front, with small window openings with cambered brick arches and replacement window frames with glazing bars; ground floor left two wider doorways also with cambered arches and later doorway to right of centre. Right-hand corner rounded; window on each floor in gable ends. Rear [N] wall blind, except for two later ground floor windows.
INTERIOR: Ground floor chamfered axial and cross-beams with run-out stops and exposed unchamfered joists. First floor chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops and ceiled joists. Second floor open to 4-bay king-post roof, with pegged scarf-jointed purlins. None of the machinery survives.
NOTE: This silk mill was built in the early C18 by William Lombe, the brother of Sir Thomas Lombe who was the first to introduce silk-throwing machinery into England. Reputedly, it was driven by a treadmill.
Listing NGR: SK2116828827
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