Cotton Doubling Mill at Draycott Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1995. A C19 Mill.
Cotton Doubling Mill at Draycott Mills
- WRENN ID
- buried-steeple-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Erewash MP: Adam Thompson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1995
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Cotton Doubling Mill at Draycott Mills, Market Street, Draycott and Church Wilne
- OS grid reference
- SK 442 332
- Coordinates
- 52.89453, -1.34367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cotton doubling mill at Draycott Mills, now a disused warehouse, was built in 1800 for Benjamin Towle. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. The building has a first floor sill band, a coped parapet, and gables, and it stands two storeys high with attics, measuring 16 by 3 bays. Most windows are boarded or blocked, but they were originally segment-headed cast iron casements with glazing bars.
The west side has a regular arrangement of windows and an inserted door to the right. The east side mirrors this fenestration, with inserted double doors on each floor to the right, situated under a gable. Each end of the building has a central gable topped with a coped stack and containing a lunette. The central door, which is blocked on the north end, is flanked by single windows, and above it are three windows, with the central one being larger. The south end features a bearing box that allows for drive from an adjacent building, as well as an iron lamp bracket at the southeast corner. This mill is part of an integrated works for the manufacture of cotton yarn and lace and is notable as an early example of a doubling mill powered by means other than water.
Local climate
Cotton Doubling Mill at Draycott Mills sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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