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Heritage Statement Heritage Statement Location Chimney at Queen Street Mill Museum, Briercliffe, Burnley. BB10 2HX Queen Street Mill Queen Street Mill is a steam‐powered weaving shed located in the mill village of Harle Syke above the town of Burnley, Lancashire and was built around 1894. Today, with its sister museum at Helmshore, Haslingden it forms part of the Museum of Lancashire Textiles Industry. The Mill is quite unique as it still contains its own working steam engine which powers original looms by intact drive systems. The mill was built and run by a village co‐operative and continued to operate until 1982. Recognised for its historic importance the site was bought by Burnley Borough Council, and when faced with later financial uncertainty taken over by Lancashire County Council in 1997. Set beside its mill lodge on the edge of open countryside the complex typifies the Lancashire Cotton Industry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The site contains a Scheduled Ancient Monument, Queen Street Mill Engine, which is currently being rescheduled under English Heritage’s revision of the National Heritage List, List ID 1005085. The scheduled site consists of the engine and its house and boiler house and the flue and chimney. The buildings are listed, Grade 1. The site is within the Harle Syke Conservation Area. Listing Grade 1 List Entry Number: 1416482 Date First Listed: 23 Dec 2013 Chimney The Grade 1 listed chimney at Burnley Queen Street Mill Museum is circular in plan, constructed from red brickwork and is thirty five metres tall, four metres diameter at its base and tapers to just over two metres at the top. Justification for the Proposed Works In November 2016 a loose brick fell from the top of the thirty five metre tall chimney. In December 2016 Brook Edgley Specialist Services Limited inspected the chimney from a high level crane and took a photographic record of the chimney. They also removed 8 loose bricks from the top of the chimney to be replaced at a later date. In January 2017 Capstone Consulting Engineers (Conservation Accredited Structural Engineers) produced a structural report on the condition of the chimney with proposed maintenance recommendations. In July 2017 Bailey International Steeplejack Services attempted to access the very top of the chimney to carry out urgent remedial works to the cap and hanger band but due to the chimneys poor condition work had to stop as they could not safely and securely fix their temporary access ladders above the twenty metre point. After consultations with the Steeplejack, Capstone's and Lancashire County Councils Structural Engineers, it was determined that the original urgent repair works to the top of the chimney cannot now proceed without additional works being carried out to make safe the top section of chimney above this twenty metre point. Proposed Works The chimney has a series of horizontal mild steel restraining straps around the perimeter at approximately 2.5m intervals running up from the base to the top. The straps are formed in four sections with a bolt connection between each part. Three sets of horizontal restraining straps, approximately 8 metres from the top of the chimney, are connected together with vertical mild steel straps at approximately 600mm centres. The proposed works to the top fifteen metres of the chimney will include removing the restraining straps, refurbishing and refitting them. New mild steel vertical straps are to be added between all the horizontal straps in the top 15m section to match the existing. Once safe access is gained to the chimney the top fifteen metres is to be more closely examined and any defective/ missing pointing is to be replaced as necessary, matching the existing mortar exactly. The 'blocking' section (the top most piece of masonry) appears to have been rebuilt in recent years and has a very unsubstantial capping. The top 'head' section (the piece of masonry below the 'blocking' section) has open joints throughout and has loose brickwork. It is believed this is where a loose brick fell from in November 2016. It is proposed to dismantle the 'blocking' section and clean the bricks for reuse. Relay/ rebed loose bricks to the top of 'head' section. Fit new precast concrete copings to the top of 'head' section, rebuild blocking section using the cleaned existing bricks and fit a new precast concrete coping to the very top of the chimney. .
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