Former Framework Knitting Workshop is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 June 2002. Workshop.
Former Framework Knitting Workshop
- WRENN ID
- calm-marble-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 June 2002
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Former Framework Knitting Workshop, Duke Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 539 200
- Coordinates
- 52.77523, -1.20145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former framework knitting workshop, built around 1875, is a two-storey red brick building with gault brick dressings and a slate roof featuring end stacks. It has a total of 16 iron-framed windows with glazing bars on the first floor, set under brick segmental arches. The ground floor has similar windows, although some are currently boarded up. There are central double loading doors on both floors, along with a single door to the center right and small windows and a door on the left end. The right end and rear of the building are blank. The interior reportedly retains the original stairs. This workshop is a well-preserved example of the transitional phase in the hosiery industry, where several knitters would work for the workshop owner, with heating provided by fireplaces at the ends.
Local climate
Former Framework Knitting Workshop sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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