Latitude: 53.1079 / 53°6'28"N
Longitude: -2.0318 / 2°1'54"W
OS Eastings: 397966
OS Northings: 356749
OS Grid: SJ979567
Mapcode National: GBR 24P.345
Mapcode Global: WHBCH.R4NQ
Plus Code: 9C5V4X59+57
Entry Name: The Big Mill
Listing Date: 7 June 1972
Last Amended: 14 October 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268581
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461666
ID on this website: 101268581
Location: Bridge End, 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 building
LEEK
SJ95NE MILL STREET 611-1/1/92 (South West side) 07/06/72 The Big Mill (Formerly Listed as: MILL STREET The Big Mill (Perry Lustre Ltd))
GV II
Silk mill. c1860. By William Sugden. Brick with stone dressings, and low-pitched or flat roof not visible. Italianate style. Narrow in plan with 5-window returns. EXTERIOR: 6 storeys, 21-window range. Advanced central 7-storeyed stair tower with arcaded upper storey and overhanging, shallow pyramidal roof. Rusticated quoins and window surrounds to tower, with plain string courses, and moulded cornice over the 6th storey. Shallow projecting bays each side of tower, (possibly built as privy towers?). Fenestration elsewhere has iron-framed windows with continuous stone cills and flat stone lintels, with round-arched windows forming an arcade to ground floor. Central doorway in base of tower with concave reveal with round-arched head, heavy key block and fanlight. Angles stressed by pilasters. Cornice and parapet. Engine and boiler house to rear, but only slight evidence of original power transmission. INTERIOR: not inspected. The mill is an important example of large-scale building for the silk industry, and represents one of the earliest mill buildings on this scale in Leek. It is also a good example of the mill-style developed by William Sugden, the leading mill architect at work in Leek at this time.
Listing NGR: SJ9796656749
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