Hartford Mill

HARTFORD MILL, BLOCK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1210026
Date first listed:
08-Mar-1993
Statutory Address:
HARTFORD MILL, BLOCK LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1210026
Date first listed:
08-Mar-1993
Statutory Address 1:
HARTFORD MILL, BLOCK LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
HARTFORD MILL, BLOCK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 91114 04531

Details

OLDHAM

SD90SW BLOCK LANE 780-1/3/15 Hartford Mill

II

Cotton spinning mill. 1907. By FW Dixon for the Hartford Mill (Oldham) Company Ltd. Extended 1920 and 1924. Probably cast-iron and steel-framed with concrete flooring, and brick walls with large areas of window. Steam powered with rope transmission. 4 and 5 storeys accommodating to sloping site, 25 bays long and 12 bays wide. Corners of main building stressed with wider pilasters between the windows, otherwise ornamentation confined to tower which projects from NW corner and rises 2 stages above main roofline, in heavy Baroque style with stone dressings, including chamfered cornice below lantern-like upper storey possibly missing former dome. Additional stair tower in centre of north elevation, with stone pedimented cornice. Wide windows to each bay, with panelled pilasters to upper storey only. Present loading bays in north east range. Single-storeyed extension to card room along south elevation. Power transmission at SW of main block, the engine house projecting and expressed as 5 window range and 3 storeys. Rope race in western elevation, which has triple central windows flanked by blind panels with pilasters at angles. Boiler house detached to west of mill, and chimney to south of engine house, with mill name and corbelled bands in white brick. (Gurr, Duncan, and Hunt, Julian: The Cotton Mills of Oldham: Oldham: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SD9111404531

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Gurr, Duncan, Hunt, , The Cotton Mills of Oldham, (1989)

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