Copley Mills
COPLEY MILLS, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162996
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Copley Mills
- Statutory Address:
- COPLEY MILLS, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162996
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Copley Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- COPLEY MILLS, 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:
- COPLEY MILLS, 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 97265 98793
Details
SJ 99 NE STALYBRIDGE HUDDERSFIELD ROAD (south side)
4/149 Copley Mills 9.8.66
G.V. II
Cotton mill. Second quarter C19 with engine house of 1871. Watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof; fire-proof floor construction on cylindrical cast iron columns. 45 x 11 bays on 4 and 5 storeys with an engine house and chimney to south-west and office wing to the north-east. Each bay has a C20 casement window on each floor with plain stone lintel and sill. The hipped roof is partly replaced by a later flat roof. The engine house has a dated timber pediment on console brackets above a large doorway; the side windows are round-headed with keystones. The north-east and north-west sides have large blocked elliptical-arched carriageways and a stone inscribed "COPLEY MILLS". Octagonal tapering chimney shaft probably 1871. James Wilkinson cotton spinner from at least 1832.
Listing NGR: SJ9726598793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212612
- 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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