Description

LEEK

SJ9856NW STOCKWELL STREET 611-1/4/130 (South side) 30/06/86 Nos.16 AND 18 (Formerly Listed as: STOCKWELL STREET (South side) Nos.16 AND 18 (Even) and Nos 2-4 (incl), Silk Street)

GV II

House, later pair of houses, now dental surgery and shop. Silk warehousing to rear, now disused. House early C19, warehousing probably mid C19, but rear range (possibly silk weaving workshops) may also be early C19. House is Flemish bond brickwork with plain-tiled and slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-window range. Doorway in centre of left-hand section, a 6-panelled door in reeded architrave with moulded stone panel (once recording a date?) above it. Flanking squared bay windows (later C19 additions) with moulded entablatures carried on brackets, and triple round-arched sash windows. Upper windows are 16-pane sashes each side of central 12-pane sash window. Right-hand section converted to shop by early C20: early C20 shop front to ground floor, with 16 and 12-pane sash windows above. 6-pane sash windows throughout in attic storey. All windows have flat stone lintels and cills; angle quoins on original left-hand gable wall; stone plinth and string course cut by bay windows. Narrow bay to left added in mid C19 and comprising return of silk warehousing to rear. This building is also brick, with plain-tiled roof. 2 storeys and basement, with loading door to left of ground floor, and irregularly spaced fixed-light windows with iron glazing. Similar windows in upper storey. Door in full height basement storey, which is lit by very small window openings. Stone coped gable to right may be evidence of earlier core to this range also. Adjoining this building to the left on Silk Street elevation, a further building intended for industrial use: also brick with plain-tiled roof; 2 storeys, 5-window range. Upper windows all fixed lights, one enlarged to form a loading door. Inserted double doors to lower left, then doorway flanked by fixed light windows, and a further doorway, 2 inserted doors, and 2 windows, one a 12-pane sash. Dentilled eaves. Stone plinth, and cills to lower windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ9849556615

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