Framework Knitters Workshop Now Workshops is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1986. Workshop. 1 related planning application.
Framework Knitters Workshop Now Workshops
- WRENN ID
- peeling-ashlar-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1986
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Framework Knitters Workshop Now Workshops, Main Street, Lowdham, NG14 7BD
- OS grid reference
- SK 668 466
- Coordinates
- 53.0127, -1.00551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a former framework knitters workshop, now used as workshops, dating from the early 19th century and 20th century. It is constructed of red brick with a pantile roof and features a left gable red brick stack. The structure is single storey and consists of two bays, with two large tripartite fixed lights. At the rear, there is a 20th-century red brick extension that is also single storey and has three bays. The left bay of this extension is gabled and includes a large doorway that is partially blocked, along with a glazing bar door. To the right of this doorway, there is a single large tripartite fixed light, and on the far right, there is a single large blocked opening.
Local climate
Framework Knitters Workshop Now Workshops 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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