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
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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
Detailed Attributes
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