Brunswick Mill
BRUNSWICK MILL, BRADFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197807
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Brunswick Mill
- Statutory Address:
- BRUNSWICK MILL, BRADFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197807
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Brunswick Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRUNSWICK MILL, BRADFORD 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:
- BRUNSWICK MILL, BRADFORD ROAD
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 85874 98734
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8598 BRADFORD ROAD, Beswick And Clayton 698-1/17/529 (South East side) Brunswick Mill
GV II
Cotton spinning mill, now various workshops and warehouses. c.1840, with some later C19 alterations. Constructed by the firm of David Bellhouse, but with possible involvement by William Fairbairn (the mill is planned according to principals which have been particularly associated with him). Brick with slate roofs, fireproof internal construction, with cast iron columns and beams, and transverse brick arches. Trussed wrought iron tie rods added to strengthen structure when the mill was converted to use the heavier ring spinning machinery c1920. Built largely in a single phase to a courtyard plan, with main spinning mill alongside canal, 2 wings for spinning and ancillary processes including blowing and winding and a front block housing main entrance, and use for warehousing and offices. Main spinning mill is 7 storeys, and 28 bays with 2 rows of cast iron columns internally. Small rectangular windows with flat arched heads in each bay. External engine house (built to house 2 beam engines) at W of site. Advanced wings are also 7 storeyed, each of 6 bays. Semi-circular stair-cases in each wing, adjoining spinning mill. 4-storey, 20-window range *upper storey a later addition) to street links the 2 wings and encloses the yard; central entrance in wide segmental archway. 2-storey loading bays built in internal angles in yard. The mill is thought to be the first Greater Manchester mill to be converted to use mains electricity as its principal power source, and later additions include an electricity transformer house added in angle of W wing and spinning mill (electric motor towers built on inner face of main spinning block have been removed). A dust flue was also added as a tower to the We of the W wing. This was a large scale operation, a distinctive example of site planning and built as a single phase around a courtyard. Structurally and technologically conventional, but of interest as an example of adaptation to suit changing technologies, both in relation to power supply (the first mill in the region to be converted to use mains electricity), and spinning technology (the structure adapted to take ring spinning machinery).
Listing NGR: SJ8587498734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387942
- 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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