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Wellington Mill

A Grade II Listed Building in Leek, Staffordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1048 / 53°6'17"N

Longitude: -2.0296 / 2°1'46"W

OS Eastings: 398116

OS Northings: 356397

OS Grid: SJ981563

Mapcode National: GBR 24P.9PR

Mapcode Global: WHBCH.S7Q4

Plus Code: 9C5V4X3C+W5

Entry Name: Wellington Mill

Listing Date: 3 February 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268546

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461709

ID on this website: 101268546

Location: Barnfields, 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

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Description


LEEK

SJ9856SW STRANGMAN STREET 611-1/6/135 (South side) 03/02/93 Wellington Mill

GV II

Silk mill. Dated 1853. Extended later C19 and early C20. Built for Thomas Whittles. Brick with slate roof. Main manufacturing block with ancillary buildings including engine house, boiler house etc. to rear. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 14-window range, with slightly advanced central pediment occupying 4 bays. Doorway in round-arched painted stone architrave towards the right of this elevation. Iron-framed windows with stone cills and flat-arched brick heads. Stone copings to gables and pediment, which is dated with the name of the mill in a painted stone panel at the apex. Projecting privy tower on rear elevation. E of the main range, a later extension (c1860?), also brick with slate roof. 3-storeyed, 3-window range. This adjoins a further range originally c1860 but extensively reconstructed c1950, retaining the roof structure, gable walls with rear stair-turret, but rebuilding the side walls and internal structure: Original gable wall facing street, 4 storeys, 4-window range with doorway to left. Gabled engine and boiler houses etc. to rear of main mill range, and tapering octagonal chimney. A series of early C20 dyeing rooms to the rear. INTERIOR: internal structure of main mill block has transverse timber beams with no intermediate supports.

Listing NGR: SJ9811656397

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