The former Clegg's Felt Factory
(originally Gateacre Brewery)
Gateacre Brow, Liverpool

AS IT IS TODAY - May 2005

Clegg's Felt Factory is a Grade II Listed Building, standing at the heart of the Gateacre Village Conservation Area opposite the village green. The official list describes it as follows: "Factory, originally a brewery, c.1870s. Common brick with red, blue and yellow brick and stone dressings, fishscale slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Sill bands and top cornice. Ground and first floors have segmental-headed windows with red and blue brick heads; small-paned casements. Red, blue and yellow brick roundels between ground-floor windows and diamonds between 1st floor windows, 2nd floor windows of 7 square lights with small-paned casements, returns have open pediments, 4-light 2nd floor windows and roundels above; right return at 3 bays as front. Rectangular louvre has hipped roof with hexagonal slates, iron crsting and weather cock. Tall stack to rear, and extensions of no special interest."

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Mike Chitty of the
Gateacre Society

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