Description

BURNLEY

SD83SW SHACKLETON STREET 906-1/3/127 (East side) Stanley Mill

GV II

Cotton weaving mill. Dated 1891 in gable; altered. Rock-faced sandstone blocks and some ashlar, slate roof with glazed "north-lights". PLAN: large rectangular weaving shed filling block between Heath Street to the north, Cleaver Street to the south and Swinless Street to the east, with a storeyed warehouse and engine house at the west end and an office block in front of the north end of this range. EXTERIOR: the main range, 2 storeys over basement, incorporating engine-house at right-angles towards the right-hand end and boiler house to right of this, 18:3:3 windows in all, has vertical-rectangular windows on both floors, mostly 9-paned and a cast-iron fire-escape from the 9th window; the single-storey office block (in front of the 1st 8 windows) has 5 windows and a round-headed doorway, a band and parapet, a downspout to the right of each opening, and at the right-hand end, canted back slightly, a wagon doorway with cast-iron lintel lettered "STANLEY MILL". Added screen wall links corner of this with corner of engine-house. The 3-window gabled engine-house, of ashlar with raised rusticated quoins, projects slightly and has at ground floor a 3-bay arcade of tall round-headed arches with imposts and keystones (a doorway flanked by windows, with altered door and altered glazing), vertical-rectangular windows at 1st floor, a cruciform plaque in the gable lettered "18 / STANLEY MILL / 91", and gable coping with kneelers. The 3-window boiler house to the right, slightly canted back, has 3 wagon doorways at ground floor with panelled cast-iron lintels, low segmental-headed windows above these and vertical-rectangular windows at 1st floor. Attached to the rear right-hand corner of boiler-house is the chimney stack, with a square-section plinth to eaves level, and a tapered circular chimney with moulded base but now lacking the cornice. The shed has side walls with high parapets and 25 rain-water hoppers and down-spouts. Included as a good example of a Burnley weaving mill. Forms group with associated Stable Block on opposite side of Cleaver Street (qv).





Listing NGR: SD8481033972

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