Bowden'S Old Lace Factory

Bowden's Old Lace Factory is a lace factory, now used as works, built around 1825. It features Flemish bond brick on a limestone rubble plinth and stands three storeys tall, with a 14-window range at the front, a three-window range on the left side, and four windows on the right side. There are circular tie-plates between each window on every floor at the front and back. To the right, there is a projecting loading bay designed in the style of an archway from 1901, and the front gable end has stone coping over a canted bay with a hipped stone roof. The high door above the plinth and the entrance to the right return are both accented with heavily rusticated quoins and dressings.

Inside, the building is divided into small commercial lots, but it mostly retains cast-iron piers supporting vaulted brick ceilings. The lace or plain net trade began to flourish here after 1820, as manufacturers moved from the Midlands to escape the Luddite resistance they faced.