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Latitude: 53.105 / 53°6'17"N
Longitude: -2.0176 / 2°1'3"W
OS Eastings: 398919
OS Northings: 356422
OS Grid: SJ989564
Mapcode National: GBR 24Q.6QR
Mapcode Global: WHBCH.Z6DZ
Plus Code: 9C5V4X3J+XX
Entry Name: London Mill
Listing Date: 18 April 1991
Last Amended: 14 October 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268663
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461587
ID on this website: 101268663
Location: Leek, 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 Mill building
LEEK
SJ9856SE ASHBOURNE ROAD
611-1/7/13 (North side)
18/04/91 London Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
ASHBOURNE ROAD
London Mill inc. Area Railings to S
& Chimney Stack immediately NNE)
GV II
Silk mill. Dated 1853. Brick with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 19- window range (8-3-8) with advanced
pedimented central bay stressed with stone quoins. Clock in
apex of pediment with date each side. Central doorway in
shallow pedimented architrave with acroteria. 20-pane iron
windows, some with central opening lights, with flat-arched
stone heads and stone cills. Overhanging eaves. Some renewed
or inserted loading doors in right-hand gable return.
Cast-iron fire escape stairs and doors in upper right-hand bay
and in lower gable return, possibly later C19 additions.
INTERIOR: has high first floor, possibly built to accommodate
Jacquard looms. Cast-iron columns support single longitudinal
beam. Truncated chimney detached to rear also dated 1853;
engine and boiler houses to rear, but power transmission
system largely secondary, with only slight evidence for
original system.
Listing NGR: SJ9891956421
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