Description

LEEK

SJ9856NE DERBY STREET
611-1/5/60 (North side (off))
01/04/87 Cottages to rear of Nos.53 and 55,
southern range
(Formerly Listed as:
DERBY STREET
(North side (off))
Cottages at NGR SJ 9856 5654)

GV II

Former silk weavers cottages, now derelict. Late C18 or early
C19. Flemish bond brickwork with blue headers. Roof covering
missing.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to front, 2 storeys to rear. 3-window
range, comprising 3 cottages, each a single-room plan with
doorways to left of the 2 left-hand cottages, and to the right
of the right-hand cottage. Windows and doors on each floor
have cambered brick heads, the ground and first-floor windows
boarded over. 2 attic windows. Dentilled eaves. End wall
stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The cottages form part of an unusually complete backplot
development of a kind typical of early urban growth associated
with industrialisation. They form a group with the adjacent
northern terraced cottage row (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ9860856546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558930

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)