Warehouse Occupied By Readers Scrap Metal Merchants

SD 8332 NE, 906-1/15/22

BURNLEY, BLACKBURN STREET (north side), Warehouse occupied by Readers Scrap Metal Merchants

(Formerly Listed as: BLACKBURN STREET, Warehouse occupied by Wallace Reader & Son; Previously known as: Cuckoo Mill BLACKBURN STREET)

29/09/77

II

Small cotton spinning mill, now scrap metal warehouse. Probably c1833. For John Hargreaves; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roof. Rectangular plan on east bank of River Calder. Three storeys over a semi-basement, 1:4 windows; to the left, 4-staged loading doors with C20 surrounds; to the right, tiered doorways to the basement and the raised ground floor, both with plain surrounds and the intermediate lintel with a chamfered soffit; three windows at basement and ground-floor levels and four on each floor above, the topmost now boarded, all with plain sills and heads. Two tie-plates. Attached to the west gable wall (overlooking the river) is a small 2-storey gabled engine house, raised on iron columns. The east gable wall incorporates stone slates of the gable end of a former row of weavers cottages known as Club Houses, and above this are four windows to the top floor and one in the gable above. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8379932761