Filemakers' Manufactory Immediately To The North West Of Number 11

SK39SE 11/145

ECCLESFIELD HIGH STREET, (east side) Filemakers' manufactory immediately to the north-west of No 11

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Filemakers' manufactory preserved as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Early C19. Sandstone, Welsh and stone slate roofs. Irregular range of 4 contiguous small buildings set at right angles to the street, mostly single storey, comprising from left to right: filemakers' workshop, warehouse and packing shop, hardening and tanging shop, cart shed.

Workshop: rubble stone plinth, framed door to right, continuous row of small-pane wood casements to left. Single pitch roof coped at left end. Central brick stack.

Warehouse: 2 storeys. Boarded door to right under stone lintel; central 5-light casement with a later window immediately above.

Hardening shop: boarded door and garage door; to right the tanging shop has boarded door and open wood-framed 3-light window with internal shutter; brick chimneys to ridge.

Cart shed is open fronted with central column built up in grindstones.

Interiors: workshop retains 8 workplaces or 'stitheys' set along the window, each with a stone stump on which the files were cut, hearth to rear. Workbench in packing shop. 2 hearths with brick firehoods in tanging shop.

Listing NGR: SK3544694016