Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar

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SK 45 SW 4/63

RIPLEY BUTTERLEY HILL (south side) Entrance building to Butterley Company Works and attached steps, bollards and pillar

(Formerly listed as 'Butterley Post Office and steps, 2 bollards and 1 cast iron pillar in the balustrade')

21.7.75

GV II

Entrance building and attached steps, bollards and pillar. Early C19 with minor later alterations. Ashlar sandstone with hipped octagonal pitched felt roof with central octagonal stone stack and projecting eaves course. Single bay, octagonal plan, two storeys but built into the hill so first floor at street level. South elevation, from the works, has C20 door below plain lintel to left angled wall, central fixed pane window below plain lintel and with projecting sill, and three-light side sliding sash to right angled wall below large concave stone hood with drip-moulds to top. Above to centre a similar window to that below.

Right return has stone steps up to street with crested cast iron pillar to balustrade and two thin, cast iron bollards with rounded heads to top step. Street elevation has two casement windows and door on angled wall to east. Butterley Works were founded by Benjamin Outram c1790 to exploit the coal reserves in the surrounding area.

Source: Philip Rider 'The Butterley Company 1780-1830'.

Listing NGR: SK3996650878