Oakwood Mill
OAKWOOD MILL, GRENVILLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084302
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Oakwood Mill
- Statutory Address:
- OAKWOOD MILL, GRENVILLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084302
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Oakwood Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKWOOD MILL, GRENVILLE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- OAKWOOD MILL, HUDDERSFIELD 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.
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:
- OAKWOOD MILL, GRENVILLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- OAKWOOD MILL, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 97836 99667
Details
STALYBRIDGE GRENVILLE STREET SJ 99 NE (off Huddersfield Road) 4/185 Oakwood Mill - II
Former cotton spinning mill, used for various light-industrial purposes at time of inspection (September 1991'). Front (south) range dated 1856, rear (north) range dated 1857, built as a specialised spinning mill for the Staley Mill Company. Coursed millstone rubble; roofs mainly flat but where pitched they are of Welsh Slate. Fireproofed throughout. South range (former warehouse) of 3 storeys, spinning mill (north) of 4; carding sheds, engine house with rope drive house, and boiler house with stack survive complete to west. The main ranges form a T-plan overall. Warehouse 19 x 4 window bays, mill 28 x 6. All windows with lintels and sills, generally 6 panes. plain parapet. Principal rusticated arch mutilated; similar but smaller secondary entrance to office intact. North end wall of mill contains integral privy block marked by 3 slit windows to each floor (occupying one full window bay). Carding sheds under 3 hipped roofs, 2 storeys 6 x 6 window bays. Adjacent engine house with pilasters, plain parapet, dentilled string above impost level of central large round-headed end opening (partly infilled with brick). Flat-headed side windows retain some original glazing. Boiler house with 2 tiers of 2 round-headed windows to north end only (partly obscured by late C20 addition). Octagonal stack with string set high and cap intact. At junction of mill and warehouse (SE) a crenellated clock tower dated 1857. Interior: fireproofed throughout; brick arches on iron girders and circular-section columns with fluted capitals. Some warehouse floors flagged; elsewhere some floors re-boarded. Engine-house with white reflective wall tiles, the roof of queen-post and arch brace construction. Boiler house with brick arched ceiling.
Listing NGR: SJ9783699667
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358712
- 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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