Devon Mill
DEVON MILL, CHAPEL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210051
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Devon Mill
- Statutory Address:
- DEVON MILL, CHAPEL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210051
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Devon Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVON MILL, CHAPEL 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:
- DEVON MILL, CHAPEL ROAD
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 91190 02950
Details
OLDHAM
SD90SW CHAPEL ROAD 780-1/3/17 Devon Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill. 1908. G.Stott for the Devon Mill Ltd. Steam-powered. Cast-iron and steel-framed with brick walls. Flat roof. 4 storeys and basement, 36 bays by 10 with corner stair towers with raised parapets. Tall flat-headed windows with corbelling over ground and upper storeys, continuous stone sill band to upper storey, and enriched corbelled eaves. Integral main stair and sprinkler tower at southwest corner, projecting by one storey above the main roof-line. Round-arched entrance doorway in west elevation, now partly blocked, and triple windows on each floor above. Stone dressings to parapet. Engine house projects from north west, with 4 round-arched windows and stone dressings. Rope race in west elevation, stressed with 4 blind corbelled panels and with 4 windows each side. Modified loading doors to right of rope race. Detached chimney to north. (Gurr, Duncan, and Hunt, Julian: The Cotton Mills of Oldham: Oldham: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SD9119002950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gurr, Duncan, Hunt, , The Cotton Mills of Oldham, (1989)
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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