Description

PARISH OF SANDIACRE CANAL STREET
SK 43 NE
2/104 (North Side)
Offices to Springfield
Mill Factory with
attached wall and
Lavatory Blocks
GV II

Factory offices with attached wall and lavatory blocks. 1888,
built for Terah Hooley by architect A Sheldon. Offices are of
red brick with red and yellow terracotta and stone dressings.
Brick plinth with blue brick copings and carved stone first
floor band with central inscription 'T HOOLEY LIMITED' and
terracotta mouldings above and below, also continuous terracotta
hoodmouldings to all windows and terracotta roundels above
ground floor windows. Slate roof with stone coped gables on
moulded stone kneelers and brick gable stacks, plus an
elaborately moulded and corbelled eaves cornice in terracotta,
with small central gable. Two storeys and five bays. Central
semi-circular headed doorcase with moulded inner edge and
alternating red and yellow voussoirs plus hoodmould which is
raised over the keystone. Inappropriate C20 doors below and a
plain fanlight. To either side there are pairs of semi-circular
headed plain sashes with similar dressings to doorcase. Above
five semi-circular headed plain sashes below plain red
voussoirs. Above again, the small central gable has a
decorative stone to base set in crowstepped panel of red bricks
with yellow bricks to rest of gable topped by stone copings and
ridge ball finial. Wall attached to west gable wall is of red
brick with moulded terracotta copings. To centre are a pair of
plain gate piers with large moulded stone copings, and attached
to north and south there are two blocks of back to back
lavatories which are part of the original factory complex. Each
has a slate roof with louvred ridge vent and a vent half way up
the roof. Each side has six sets of lavatories with plank
doors.

Listing NGR: SK4799736509

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26380307

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