Former Framework Knitting Workshop, Duke Street, Loughborough (Grade II)

Former framework knitting workshop. ca. 1875. Red brick with gault brick dressings and slate roof with end stacks. Two storeys. Sixteen window range in all at first floor of iron framed windows with glazing bars under brick segmental arches. Similar windows to ground floor, at present partly boarded. Central double loading doors on both floors. Further single door to centre right. Small windows and door on left end. Right end and rear blank. Interior reported as retaining original stairs.
This framework knitters workshop is a little-altered and unusual survival of the intermediate stage in the hosiery industry between home working and the complete factory. A number of knitters would work here for the workshop owner, some heating being provided by the end fireplaces.