BROWNSFIELD MILL

BROWNSFIELD MILL, BINNS PLACE, M1 2EG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1207994
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: BROWNSFIELD MILL
Statutory Address:: BROWNSFIELD MILL, BINNS PLACE, M1 2EG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1207994
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: BROWNSFIELD MILL
Statutory Address 1:: BROWNSFIELD MILL, BINNS PLACE, M1 2EG

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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: BROWNSFIELD MILL, BINNS PLACE, M1 2EG

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 84892 98400

Details

SJ 8498 SE, 698-1/29/16

MANCHESTER, BINNS PLACE (West side (off)), Brownsfield Mill

11.11.88

G.V.

II*

Cotton spinning mill, built as a room and power mill. Now in use as cash-and-carry premises. Built c1825 and extended shortly afterwards to form an L-plan. Brick, rendered to all but SW elevation; slate roofs; cast-iron and timber internal structure. Main block of c1825 is parallel to the Rochdale Canal: 7 storeys, 12 bays, with internal engine house at gable end marked by round-arched openings to SW. Small windows with segmentally arched brick-heads. Small privy tower on N elevation, which also has taking-in doors on lower floors to E of centre. 6-storeyed 7-bay wing at right angles to this range a slightly later addition, probably used for warehousing. It has central full-height loading bay, and privy and stair turret enclosing chimney, built at angle of the two ranges, with main entrance at base of tower. The chimney is now Manchester's oldest surviving mill chimney. Original site of boilers probably in detached fireproof room situated beneath the level of the yard. Internal construction has cast-iron columns carrying heavy timber beams which directly carry floor boards.

Included as an excellent example of an early C19 mill, its plan form typical of early Manchester mills, and which in its detailed layout and design demonstrates the development of an industrial architecture in the relationships between function and plan. A rare surviving example of a type of construction employing heavy timber and cast iron, a system which provided load-bearing strength (well-suited to room-and-power mills in which upper floors would also be used for very heavy machinery) and slow-burn properties.

Listing NGR: SJ8489298407

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Legacy System number:: 387930
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.