Regency Mill
REGENCY MILL, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206899
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Regency Mill
- Statutory Address:
- REGENCY MILL, CHESTER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206899
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Regency Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- REGENCY MILL, CHESTER 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:
- REGENCY MILL, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 90916 73621
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9073 CHESTER ROAD 886-1/6/41 (South side) 14/04/49 Regency Mill (Formerly Listed as: CHESTER ROAD (South side) Chester Road Mills)
GV II
Former silk mill, now joinery works and previously a card factory. c1820. Brick with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: main block with ancillary buildings including engine house and weaving sheds to rear. Weaving sheds comprise 5 parallel north lit ranges, built against curtain wall to Oxford Road. Brick with hipped stone-flagged roof. L-plan main block with short 2-bay wing to rear. EXTERIOR: main elevation of 17 bays (6-5-6) with advanced and pedimented central section. 4 storeys and basement. All windows have flat-arched gauged brick heads and 36-pane sashes (some 4-pane sashes and transomed windows to ground floor). Former main doorway disused in bay 3: Doric case, 6-panelled door with radial fan (building now entered from doorway in the curtain wall to Oxford Road). Clock in apex of pediment, and bell cupola to roof. Heavy moulded stone cornice. External stair tower to rear right with privy tower adjoining, and a second stair tower projecting in inner angle of main range and rear wing to left. Square section stack (apparently connected to former detached engine house by horizontal underground flue) breaks through cornice to rear left. INTERIOR: single span with timber beams and queen post roof structure with collar and bracing. Lower floors have supplementary steel columns and supports introduced more recently. Cast-iron columns support roof structure of weaving sheds, forming a continuous working area. The mill is an interesting example of an integrated site which included silk manufacture and throwing, weaving and dyeing.
Listing NGR: SJ9091673621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390943
- 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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