The
building was L-shaped, 3 storeys high, and
the older part of the building forming the
foot of the 'L'. This had a frontage of
915cm. to King Street and faced north, it
stood on a plinth of irregular granite blocks,
with odd pieces of Barrow limestone inter-mingled
with them, standing 3 feet high and 18"
thick, (i.e.g1.5 cm high, 45.7 cm. thick).
The
plinth may have been retained from an earlier
building on this site. The west side gable-end
had a granite and limestone wall up to the
first- floor level. The street facade consisted
of the afore-mentioned plinth, above which
there were two storeys built with red bricks
with a blue brick diaper pattern, and a
projecting red brick hood to all the windows
and doorway, these were connected with a
projecting red brick string course, the
bricks measured 235mm long x 118mm wide
x 50mm thick.
The
third storey was built at a later stage
with modern sized bricks, (229mm x 11gmm
x 76mm) presumably for the purpose of housing
a knitting frame; this is suggested by the
arrangement of the windows to allow the
maximum light to enter the rooms. Such extensions
were common in the turn of the 18th-19th
century, in the villages of the Soar valley.
On
the ground floor there were two rooms, the
first measured 366cm x 412cm, and the second
457cm x 414cm which also had a brick fireplace
built of the smaller-sized bricks. Each
room had a ceiling beam running centrally,
and parallel to the frontage, in section
229mm.wide, and 268mm.deep, with joists
running at right-angles, in section 90 mm.
x 90 mm. and at 407mm. centres.
The
floor in the smaller room was of herring-bone
pattern brickwork, brick size 235mm. x 115mm,
in the larger room the floor was of concrete.
The second storey rooms were of similar sizes,
whilst the third storey had an uneven concrete
floor, with a fretted door dividing the two
rooms.
The
line of a previous steeper roof pitch was
clearly visible on the gable end walls,
and the dividing wall. The facade from the
street showed two windows and one doorway
on the ground floor, three windows on the
first floor, and two windows on the top
floor.
