Silk Mill Museum Of Making is a Grade II listed building in the Derby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1977. Industrial museum. 10 related planning applications.

Silk Mill Museum Of Making

WRENN ID
heavy-gateway-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Derby
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1977
Type
Industrial museum
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 May 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 3536 NW 2/136

FULL STREET No 32 (Silk Mill Museum Of Making)

(Formerly listed as Industrial Museum)

II

Rebuilt in late C19, but the original site and retaining some of the brickwork of the silk mill established in 1717 by John Lombe, the first silk mill in this country. Red brick; of three and four storeys with octagonal tower block having octahedral slate roof. Built on arches on an island in the river. None of the original architectural ornament remains and the fine gates by Bakewell are now in Wardwick (qv).

The building converted to an Industrial Museum 1974.

Listing NGR: SK3534536619

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