BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER BROOK MILL, ATTACHED RAILINGS, OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER.

BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER, BROOKSIDE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119729
Date first listed:: 15-May-1997
List Entry Name:: BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER BROOK MILL, ATTACHED RAILINGS, OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER.
Statutory Address:: BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER, BROOKSIDE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119729
Date first listed:: 15-May-1997
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Apr-1998
List Entry Name:: BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER BROOK MILL, ATTACHED RAILINGS, OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER.
Statutory Address 1:: BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER, BROOKSIDE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER, STONEHOUSE GREEN
Statutory Address 3:: BROOK MILL, ATTACHED RAILINGS, OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER., MOUNTBATTEN WAY

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Statutory Address:: BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER, BROOKSIDE ROAD
Statutory Address:: BROOK MILL ATTACHED RAILINGS OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER, STONEHOUSE GREEN
Statutory Address:: BROOK MILL, ATTACHED RAILINGS, OUTBUILDINGS AND PERIMETER WALL WITH GATEPIER., MOUNTBATTEN WAY

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Congleton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 85861 63168

Details

SD 8563 CONGLETON MOUNTBATTEN WAY (North-west side) 702/2/10024 Brook Mill and attached railings and yard wall

II

Includes: Brook Mill and attached railings and yard wall, BROOKSIDE ROAD Includes: Brook Mill and attached railings and yard wall, STONEHOUSE GREEN Silk throwing and weaving mills, water- and later steam-powered; silk spinning mills from 1835, now factory. 1785-early C19, extended 1835. Brick with stone foundation courses, and slate roofs. PLAN: irregular layout of the two original4-storey mills following the water course, and the 1835 five-storey weaving mill at an angle at the E end, with ancillary buildings in the yard to the S. EXTERIOR: 4-storeys; 4:9:9-window range, with 1835 5-storey; 8-window E range. Earlier mills lower and narrower with stone lintels; narrower Wend section of 4 windows with a 1- 'window stair tower at the end; wider mill to the W has a lavatory tower in the angle on the S side; the two earlier mills canted at a slight angle to one another. 1835 mill has dated rainwater hoppers, a parapet and coped gables, and rubbed brick flat arches; the 4-window W gable has a left-hand half-round dry shute privy tower with small openings to each floor and an open ashlar base for removal of the soil; formerly with a round stair tower attached to the E gable adjoining the earlier mill, now demolished. INTERIOR: earlier mills have timber cross beams and king and queen post roofs, the 1835 mill has 2 rows of cast-iron columns to box beam floors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached iron spear-headed railings to the wall bordering the stream on the N side; former yard wall with ashlar base extends from the Wend along the stream and returns to the S. HISTORY: originally built for throwing and weaving silk, by 1821 both water and steam were used as complementary power systems, both by day and only water by night. The 1835 mill was for powered weaving; the privy shute is a particularly good example of the improvements in mill worker amenities. The whole site was converted for silk spinning in 1835. The various processes of silk dressing and spinning were carried out on the ground floors, with weaving on those above. This is the largest surviving complex of silk mills in Congleton, and the only remaining example in the region of a works used for silk spinning. This is a site of considerable historical interest at the centre of the local textile industry, illustrating the modest water power sites which silk mills could exploit, and the increase in scale of late C18 to mid C19 mills. Bibliography: (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), East Cheshire Textile Mills (Anthony Calladine and Jean Fricker et al), 1993, Page(s) 83,86.

Listing NGR: SJ8586163168

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Legacy System number:: 469251
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Calladine, A, Fricker, J et al, East Cheshire Textile Mills, (1993), 83,86.

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.