The Padiham Heritage Appraisal - Burnley Borough Council

Handloom weaver Independent artisan mostof whose life centred on family and home/farm. Owned or rented loom.Housing Market Renewal (HMR) TheGovernment’s new approach to tackling lowhousing demand and abandonment in theNorth of England and the Midlands.Intervention Area Area covered byGovernment’s Pathfinder Housing MarketRenewal initiative.Hood mould Projecting moulding over dooror window designed to throw off water.Jamb The sides of a window or dooropening. Usually constructed of a solid slabof stone.Lintel Horizontal beam or stone bridging anopening.Listed Building and Locally ListedBuilding When buildings are listed theyare placed on statutory lists of buildingsof ‘special architectural or historic interest’compiled by the Secretary of State forCulture, Media and Sport under the Planning(Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act1990, on advice from English Heritage.A Locally Listed Building is a building,structure or feature which, whilst not listedby the Secretary of State, a local authorityfeels to be an important part of the area’sheritage due to its architectural, historic orarchaeological significance.Local Board The Padiham and Hapton LocalBoard replaced a Select Vestry (see below)as the local government body in 1873 beforebeing replaced in turn by the Padiham UrbanDistrict Council in 1894.Mule spinning A heavy and complex kind ofspinning carried out on a machine called a‘mule.’Mullion Vertical member between windowlights.National School Promoted by ‘The NationalSociety for Promoting the Education of thePoor in Principles of the Established Churchthroughout England and Wales’ (founded1811), National Schools aimed to providechildren with an elementary education at acheap weekly rate as well as teaching thefaith of the established church.Overlooker Supervisor in a textile mill.Pathfinder Project Nine sub-regionalHousing Market Restructuring PathfinderProjects have been created to bringabout housing market renewal and tackleassociated high levels of crime and socialexclusion. The East Lancashire Pathfinderincludes parts of Blackburn, Hyndburn,Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale.Pediment A formalised gable derived fromthat of a classical temple. Also triangularspace at the top of a wall or over a doorwaythat looks like a gable. Sometimes containsdecoration.Pilaster Flat version of a classical column inshallow relief. Often used on shop frontages.Powerloom Invented in 1784 by EdmundCartwright. Originally shuttle operated.Quoin The stone blocks on the outsidecorner of a building which are usuallydifferentiated from the adjoining walls bymaterial, colour, texture, size or projection.Sash window A window in which two sashes,separated by parting beads, slide within aframe, counterbalanced by weights hung onropes.Select Vestry A select number of personschosen in large and populous Englishparishes to represent and manage theconcerns of the parish for one year.Forerunner of the Local Board.Setts Square blocks ususally of granite,forming a street surface.Snecked Coursed sandstone where thesquared stones have not been fully dressedand the coursing is varied by smaller stones(snecks).Stall riser The panel below the sill of a shopwindow.Tape sizer ‘Tape sizer’ or ‘taper’ isresponsible for applying a ‘size’ to yarn, asubstance which gives it strength, stiffnessand smoothness and thereby improves itsweaving qualities.Temperance Movement Movement aimingto reduce the amount of alcohol consumed.Temple The part of a loom that keeps thecloth being woven stretched to the correctwidth.Tree Protection Order (TPO) Made by localauthority to protect specific trees or woodlandfrom deliberate damage or destruction.Turnpike A turnpike, toll road or tollpike is aroad on which a toll authority collects a feefor use.Vernacular A term used to categorizea method of construction which usesimmediately available resources to addressimmediate needs.108 heritage appraisal