Structure Adjoining Slater Terrace To North West

BURNLEY

SD8232NW SANDYGATE 906-1/14/125 (North West side) 24/09/90 Structure adjoining Slater Terrace to north-west

GV II

Warehouse, converted as boiler-house, engine-house to Sandygate Mill c1860 (not included); derelict at time of inspection (July 1990). Mid C19 with later modifications. Coursed gritstone; Welsh slate roof. Warehouse aligned roughly east-west with taking-in doors both to Leeds-Liverpool Canal (north) and an unnamed street off Sandygate to south, later converted into an industrial building of uncertain function. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Canal elevation: regular 6-window range. All windows blocked, those to 1st floor with stone sills and lintels at the level of the moulded stone eaves cornice - except bay 3 (loading bay) where opening set lower in tooled surround with iron frame for joist at sill level. Ground floor: 2 windows to left as above. Loading bay with large round-headed opening on plinth, blocked, with later window, itself blocked. Of the 3 windows to the right, 2 round-headed with transoms at impost level; tall window to extreme right partly infilled with brick. Small contemporary end stack (with gable coping) to left. Later tall stone stack with iron hoops breaks through front roof slope (to left). Rear: tall rusticated plinth; tall plinth (in addition) for corner stack (now dismantled). 2 large windows; slightly recessed taking-in door under gable. Attached to rear, its west wall flush with west return of warehouse, an engine house, rectangular in plan, one round-headed opening to each wall (except north), surmounted by iron panelled water tank. INTERIOR not inspected. This building is attached to, and groups with, Slater Terrace (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8344632596