12, Haywood Street

LEEK

SJ9856SE HAYWOOD STREET 611-1/7/68 (South side) No.12

GV II

Silk mill. Built c1876 (an adjacent engineering building is dated 1876 (not included)) By William Sugden. Possibly for HD Bayliss. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Classical style with Lombardic detailing. EXTERIOR: gabled front to Haywood Street, a 4-storeyed, 3-window range. Central doorway flanked by flat-arched windows to ground floor, cambered heads to first-floor windows, round-arched arcaded windows above, and flat-arched upper-floor window each side of central tall round-arched window, with pilasters corbelled out each side carrying squared bell-cote(?) at the gable apex. Possible privy tower to right with hipped roof. Return to Shoobridge Street a 10-window range, the 3 windows to the left closely spaced and with a doorway on the ground floor (possibly marking location of staircase). Cambered heads to ground-floor windows, round-arched windows above, all with stone cills. Heavily projecting arcaded corbel table divides upper storey, which has flat lintels to windows. Windows all retain cast-iron glazing, with small central opening lights. Stack detached towards rear, square section with heavily moulded cap. Small building with hipped roof to rear, probably original engine house, which may also have served adjacent former engineering works. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ9853556357