Chorlton Old Mill
CHORLTON OLD MILL, CAMBRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197775
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chorlton Old Mill
- Statutory Address:
- CHORLTON OLD MILL, CAMBRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197775
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chorlton Old Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHORLTON OLD MILL, CAMBRIDGE STREET
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:
- CHORLTON OLD MILL, CAMBRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83965 97285
Details
SJ 8397, 698-1/19/38
MANCHESTER,
CAMBRIDGE STREET (East side),
Chorlton Old Mill
(Formerly Listed as: CAMBRIDGE STREET Mill on south-east corner of junction with Hulme Street)
11/03/88
GV
II
Cotton spinning mill, converted to accommodation in 1993. The
earliest mill on the site was built in 1795, considerably
extended c1810, and then largely rebuilt in 1866. Brick with
slate roof (missing at time of inspection). Single range of a
formerly U-plan mill survives: six storeys over basement, 14x8
bays, each with rectangular window with flat arched head.
Panelled corner pilasters. Former shallow wings to each side
to rear. Interior construction is cast-iron columns and beams
carrying transverse brick arches (some columns encased in
steel), and with three bays of cast iron arch-braced roof trusses.
Later C19 rebuilding involved re-use of some at least of the
structural iron-work, but it is likely that the roof structure
dates in its entirety to the 1860's.
HISTORY: as Chorlton Twist Company, the earliest mill on the
site was developed by Robert Owen before he moved to New
Lanark. He sold it in 1809, and a series of alterations and
extensions followed. The C19 owners of the mill also developed
the adjacent Chorlton New Mill, (qv) with which Chorlton Old
Mill forms a group. This the surviving building on the site,
is a partial rebuild of an early C19 mill, with an unusual
cast-iron roof structure.
Listing NGR: SJ8396597285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williams, , Farnie, , Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester, (1993), 109
Clark, S, Industrial Archaeology Review in Chorlton Mills And Their Neighbours, (1978)
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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