Shore Mill
SHORE MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067445
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shore Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SHORE MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067445
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shore Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHORE MILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHORE MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 98602 07943
Details
SADDLEWORTH DELPH SD 9807 7/76 Shore Mill - - II* Water-powered carding mill. Early 1780s. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3 storeys with a centrally-placed undershot waterwheel. 2 blocked doors (now windows) and a later doorway on either side of two 2-light windows (formerly of a longer row). 12-light windows to first and second floors, every third mullion being a king mullion. All windows have flat-faced recessed stone mullions. Gable stack and taking-in doors to gables. The rear retains a blocked arched mill leat opening, 4 and 3- light ground floor windows, two 5-light first floor windows and a 12-light second floor window. Interior: reconstructed water-wheel replacing the original overshot wheel. Timber beam single-span floors use an interesting pre-stressing mechanism: wrought-iron tie-rods are employed (of late C19) to sustain increase loading on the beams. Originally used for the willeying process in the woollen industry. A rare survival of an early water-powered mill built for the factory system of manufacture but still using a vernacular/domestic vocabulary of architecture. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.9. No.4, 1979, p.81.
Listing NGR: SD9860207943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212089
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 4, Vol. 9, (1979), 81
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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