Description

SK 53 SE RUDDINGTON CHAPEL STREET (south side)

5/98 Framework Knitters' cottages now part of Museum complex

G.V. II

4 cottages, now single cottage and museum. c.1829, built by a speculative builder, restored c.1970. Red brick stretchers, pink headers. Pantile roof. 2 red brick ridge stacks. Dentil eaves. Outer single 2 up, 2 down cottages and central single pair of one up, one down back to back cottages. 2 storeys plus garret, 7 bays. Having from left to right a doorway with plank door, a single tripartite glazing bar casement, a single small glazing bar casement, a similar doorway and door, 2 similar tripartite casements and a similar doorway and door. All apart from the small casement under segmental arches. Above are 3 glazing bar casements in enlarged openings being originally segmental arched glazing bar casements. The only remaining range of cottages in this complex built specifically to house the workers of the adjacent framework knitters' workshops. Single cottage occupied shortly after completion by the knitter, Samuel Parker, the buildings later purchased by his son William, also a knitter, but later a hosier. A further generation of the Parker family occupied the site, vacating it in 1929.

Listing NGR: SK5717032963

External Links

• Wikidata Q26654844

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)