[23692] Leek : Big Mill

Big Mill, Mill Street, Leek, Staffordshire, c1860.

By William Sugden (1821-1892).

For Lovatt & Gould, silk manufacturers.

Grade ll listed.

 

The mill is an important example of large-scale building for the silk industry, and represents one of the earliest mill buildings on this scale in Leek. It is also a good example of the mill-style developed by William Sugden, the leading mill architect at work in Leek at this time.

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Taken on September 21, 2011