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Latitude: 53.1079 / 53°6'28"N
Longitude: -2.0318 / 2°1'54"W
OS Eastings: 397966
OS Northings: 356749
OS Grid: SJ979567
Mapcode National: GBR 24P.345
Mapcode Global: WHBCH.R4NQ
Plus Code: 9C5V4X59+57
Entry Name: The Big Mill
Listing Date: 7 June 1972
Last Amended: 14 October 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268581
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461666
ID on this website: 101268581
Location: Bridge End, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, ST13
County: Staffordshire
District: Staffordshire Moorlands
Civil Parish: Leek
Built-Up Area: Leek
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Leek St Edward the Confessor
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Mill building
LEEK
SJ95NE MILL STREET
611-1/1/92 (South West side)
07/06/72 The Big Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
MILL STREET
The Big Mill (Perry Lustre Ltd))
GV II
Silk mill. c1860. By William Sugden. Brick with stone
dressings, and low-pitched or flat roof not visible.
Italianate style. Narrow in plan with 5-window returns.
EXTERIOR: 6 storeys, 21-window range. Advanced central
7-storeyed stair tower with arcaded upper storey and
overhanging, shallow pyramidal roof. Rusticated quoins and
window surrounds to tower, with plain string courses, and
moulded cornice over the 6th storey. Shallow projecting bays
each side of tower, (possibly built as privy towers?).
Fenestration elsewhere has iron-framed windows with continuous
stone cills and flat stone lintels, with round-arched windows
forming an arcade to ground floor. Central doorway in base of
tower with concave reveal with round-arched head, heavy key
block and fanlight. Angles stressed by pilasters. Cornice and
parapet.
Engine and boiler house to rear, but only slight evidence of
original power transmission.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The mill is an important example of large-scale building for
the silk industry, and represents one of the earliest mill
buildings on this scale in Leek. It is also a good example of
the mill-style developed by William Sugden, the leading mill
architect at work in Leek at this time.
Listing NGR: SJ9796656749
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