Offices To Springfield Mill Factory With Attached Wall And Lavatory Blocks

PARISH OF SANDIACRE CANAL STREET SK 43 NE 2/104 (North Side) Offices to Springfield Mill Factory with attached wall and Lavatory Blocks GV II

Factory offices with attached wall and lavatory blocks. 1888, built for Terah Hooley by architect A Sheldon. Offices are of red brick with red and yellow terracotta and stone dressings. Brick plinth with blue brick copings and carved stone first floor band with central inscription 'T HOOLEY LIMITED' and terracotta mouldings above and below, also continuous terracotta hoodmouldings to all windows and terracotta roundels above ground floor windows. Slate roof with stone coped gables on moulded stone kneelers and brick gable stacks, plus an elaborately moulded and corbelled eaves cornice in terracotta, with small central gable. Two storeys and five bays. Central semi-circular headed doorcase with moulded inner edge and alternating red and yellow voussoirs plus hoodmould which is raised over the keystone. Inappropriate C20 doors below and a plain fanlight. To either side there are pairs of semi-circular headed plain sashes with similar dressings to doorcase. Above five semi-circular headed plain sashes below plain red voussoirs. Above again, the small central gable has a decorative stone to base set in crowstepped panel of red bricks with yellow bricks to rest of gable topped by stone copings and ridge ball finial. Wall attached to west gable wall is of red brick with moulded terracotta copings. To centre are a pair of plain gate piers with large moulded stone copings, and attached to north and south there are two blocks of back to back lavatories which are part of the original factory complex. Each has a slate roof with louvred ridge vent and a vent half way up the roof. Each side has six sets of lavatories with plank doors.

Listing NGR: SK4799736509