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Report - - W H Shaw and Sons Dobcross Works Office Building, Diggle, September 2018 | Industrial Sites | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - W H Shaw and Sons Dobcross Works Office Building, Diggle, September 2018

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tarkovsky

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I visited the rest of this site a while back and reported here:
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/wh-shaw-and-co-dobcross-works-diggle-december-2017.111633/
However, having not been able to access the Grade Two Listed Admin block at the time a return visit had been on the cards for a while. So I returned solo one sunny autumn morning with a bit more success than last time I was here.

The building’s main features are taken from the Historic England listing here: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1068167

‘Dobcross loom works, office building. 1890 for Huchinson and Hollingworth. Ashlar with Westmorland slate roof. Gothic style. 5 x 3 bays with 2 storeys (plus attics). Asymmetrical elevation, bays 2 and 4 being advanced, the latter with entrance and clock tower, the others each being gabled. Rock-faced plinth, first floor band. Each bay on each floor has a 2, 3 or 5-light chamfered mullion window with shouldered heads and leaded glass in the upper part. The gables are coped, have kneelers and ornate finials, and 1 or 2-light windows with cusped heads. The door at the base of the tower has an overlight with keystone, flanking pilasters, cornice, dies with ball finials and entwined initials above a scroll. The 4-stage tower rises above with its machicolated top stage having clock faces, gables, corner pinnacles and a Lombardic roof with decorative iron crown. Clustered diagonally set ridge chimney stacks. The interior remains largely unaltered with original glazed tile skirtings, panelled doors, cornices, a cast iron staircase and a decorative cast iron spiral staircase. The "Dobcross Loom" was exported worldwide in the late C19.’

In spite of being sealed for so long there’s signs of vandalism inside, as well as more natural decay. Apologies for the fisheye heavy pics, I couldn’t be bothered changing my lens and it was necessary in the clock tower which is fairly tiny but nicely photogenic.

Looking out on the admin block from another building...

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Going in clocks....

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Upper floors

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Downstairs

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Tiles = Smiles

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Ojay

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About time somebody stuck some pics up, I wondered why nobody was posting ?

Such a shame the place was trashed many, many years ago, it's a lovely building and such a shame to see it vandalised and pikied, at least security are back on it there now so hopefully one day when they decide if school or housing the admin will be saved :popcorn
 
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