Waterside Mill

WATERSIDE MILL, BURNLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072860
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Waterside Mill
Statutory Address:
WATERSIDE MILL, BURNLEY ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072860
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Waterside Mill
Statutory Address 1:
WATERSIDE MILL, BURNLEY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WATERSIDE MILL, BURNLEY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 86696 23244

Details

SD 82 SE, 7/15

BACUP,
BURNLEY ROAD,
Waterside Mill

II

Cotton mill, dated 1839 on wagon entrance. Coursed sandstone
blocks, slate roof, chimney at right front corner, now cut down.
Rectangular 11-window plan, 3½ storeys, gable to road. This end,
which has a short, three-storey extension covering the centre and
right-hand side, incorporates the engine house and chimney which is embraced
by the right-hand corner; round-arched wagon entrance to the
left-hand side of the gable wall has projecting keystone inscribed "1839",
and above this are three vertically aligned windows in reduced openings,
probably originally loading doors. Side walls have vertical
rectangular windows with plain sills and heads, altered glazing;
unusual triple gutter brackets. Rear, built into a slope, becomes
21 storeys, has 3-stage loading doors in the centre from the second
floor to the apex (fire escape now leading from the centre of these),
two vertically aligned doors below and to the left, and various small
windows. INTERIOR: iron columns supporting timber beams which pass
through cast iron stirrups at the heads.


Listing NGR: SD8669623244

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
185592
Legacy System:
LBS

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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