page_title: Samuel Stretton
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Stretton / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugh Stewart Hall, a hall of residence on University Park Campus, University of Nottingham
context_page_description: Samuel Stretton was a builder and architect in Nottingham who is noted for building the first powered cotton mill.
context_section_description: He carried on the business of a builder to Nottingham, at first on his own account, and later in partnership with his son William Stretton,
  Buildings by Samuel Stretton include:
  1769-1772 the first powered Cotton Mill erected in England, driven by horses turning a capstan.
  1776 Colwick Hall 
  1777 the Grand Stand on Nottingham Racecourse.
  1789 Nottingham Town Jail.
  1792 Evans, Storer and Green Brewery, Poplar Place, Lenton, Nottingham at a cost of £15,000 (equivalent to £1,581,519 as of 2016),. This brewery only survived for two years.
  1792 Lenton Hall, now part of Hugh Stewart Hall at the University of Nottingham.
caption: Lenton Hall built in 1792, now part of Hugh Stewart Hall at the University of Nottingham
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