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SE3132NW EAST STREET 714-1/82/165 (South West side) 06/11/89 Bank Mills 'B' and 'D'

GV II

2 flax mills. 1831-32, 1856 with additions 1888. 'B' mill by John Clark of Edinburgh. Red brick with ashlar dressings, slate roof of double pitch to 'B' mill. 'B' mill built 1831-32. River frontage has to the west a tall square chimney stack with ashlar base, now partly truncated. 6 storeys, 21 bays, with continuous ashlar sill bands and partial ashlar parapet. Each floor has 21 glazing bar casements, a few now blocked. Eastern end has semicircular stair and hoist tower, which projects above the parapet as a circular turret. Attached to the south-east and masking the stair tower 'D' mill added 1856. Also with continuous ashlar sill bands and brick parapet with dentils. 4 storeys, 9 x 6 bays, each floor on the river front having 9 glazing bar casements with segmental brick heads, and each floor on the south-east having 6 glazing bar casements with evidence of the former mill stream entrance below. Added to the rear in 1888 a 12-bay , 5-storey wing with 12 large glazing bar casements to each floor, topped by a mansard slate roof with a central gabled hoist dormer with blocked door. INTERIOR: 'B' mill: reputed to contain cylindrical cast-iron columns and cast-in line shaftings, roof structure of wrought- and cast-iron. 'B' mill was designed by John Clark of Edinburgh for Hives and Atkinson; he had been employed by John Marshall at his Marshall Street Mills (qv) and by John Wilkinson at Hunslet Mill, Goodman Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SE3104732975

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey