Cottages To Rear Of Numbers 53 And 55 Southern Range

LEEK

SJ9856NE DERBY STREET 611-1/5/60 (North side (off)) 01/04/87 Cottages to rear of Nos.53 and 55, southern range (Formerly Listed as: DERBY STREET (North side (off)) Cottages at NGR SJ 9856 5654)

GV II

Former silk weavers cottages, now derelict. Late C18 or early C19. Flemish bond brickwork with blue headers. Roof covering missing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to front, 2 storeys to rear. 3-window range, comprising 3 cottages, each a single-room plan with doorways to left of the 2 left-hand cottages, and to the right of the right-hand cottage. Windows and doors on each floor have cambered brick heads, the ground and first-floor windows boarded over. 2 attic windows. Dentilled eaves. End wall stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected. The cottages form part of an unusually complete backplot development of a kind typical of early urban growth associated with industrialisation. They form a group with the adjacent northern terraced cottage row (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ9860856546