Former Hosiery Factory is a Grade II listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Factory. 1 related planning application.
Former Hosiery Factory
- WRENN ID
- dark-transept-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gedling
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Former Hosiery Factory, 130, Main Street, Calverton, NG14 6LU
- OS grid reference
- SK 610 493
- Coordinates
- 53.03755, -1.09074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This former hosiery factory, now a printing works, dates from around 1830. It is constructed of brick and features gabled and hipped roofs covered with pantiles, along with a single ridge stack. The building is two storeys high and consists of five bays across two sections. The windows are large glazing bar sashes, with ground floor openings having segmental heads. The south side has five casements on each floor, while the rear has three casements. The west gable includes a door and a casement, and the east gable has a casement on each floor.
Local climate
Former Hosiery Factory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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