Description

NOTTINGHAM
SK 5640 SW
NEWD I GATE STREET (Southeast side)
646-1/12/10017
Kirk's Factory with chimney and boilerhouse
GV II
Alternatively known as: Kirk¿s Factory with chimney and boilerhouse, RUSSELL STREET Tenement lace factory with chimney and boilerhouse, now warehouse. Dated 1872, with additions 1879 and 1894. Restored late C20. Red brick with blue brick, moulded brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Plinth, polychrome bands, elaborate dentillated eaves. Windows are mainly original cast-iron glazing bar casements, with moulded brick segmental heads and keystones. Ground floor and first floor windows boarded. 4 storeys plus attics; 17 x 10 bays, on corner site with rounded corner entrance bay. Entrance bay has a round-arched doorway with voussoirs and keystone double doors and fanlight. Above, single windows on each floor. The bay is topped with a moulded round-arched gable and finial containing a clock in a dated surround. Behind the gable, a wooden enclosure containing a bell. Both returns have regular fenestration. Left return, to Russell Street, has to left a moulded round-arched cart opening with keystone and double doors. Attics have clerestory with continuous glazing bar windows. Newdigate Street range has at the rear a rounded stair turret at each end, with an additional buttresses stair turret adjoining to the right. Third bay has hoist and loft doors. In yard to rear a boiler house, 2 storeys, 3 bays, has to left 2 blocked segment-arched first floor windows. Between boiler house and factory, an octagonal chimney stack with recessed top, approx 25m high. Like many lace factories, this building became a tobacco factory c1900.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657047

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)