Provident Works, Office and boundary walls

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SK 5640 646-1/12/10016

SW NEWDIGATE STREET (Northwest side) Provident Works, Office and boundary walls

GV II

Alternatively known as: Provident Works, Office and boundary walls, GAMBLE STREET Lace tenement factory. c1860, altered mid C20. Red brick, with ashlar and brick dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs behind parapet. Plinth, second floor sill band, modillion cornice and string course. Windows are mainly original cast-iron glazing bar casements with wedge lintels. Four storeys; 2:14 bays. To left, a slightly recessed block, two bays, with windows to left and loft doors to right on all floors. Main block, to right, has regular fenestration. Left return, three bays, has pair of windows to left, and loft doors to right. At the rear, a square factory chimney with cornice and short coped upper stage, Office block at south comer, two storeys, single bay. Rounded comer, and on each side a single segment-arched plain sash on each floor.

Later extension to north-west, three storey with blue brick bands and ashlar dressings, Blue brick plinth, decorative eaves band and coped gables. 8 x 6 windows segment headed, those to upper floor smaller. Russell Street front has two gables with bracketed eaves, and top floor has three graduated windows to each floor. To left, along Gamble Street, a coped wall with double gateway, approximately 10m long, To right, along Newdigate Street, a similar wall with ashlar coping, approximately 25m long. Double gate to left, doorway to right.

Listing NGR: SK5623340475