St Georges Street Mill

5 AND 7, ST GEORGES STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210224
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
St Georges Street Mill
Statutory Address:
5 AND 7, ST GEORGES STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210224
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:
St Georges Street Mill
Statutory Address 1:
5 AND 7, ST GEORGES STREET
Statutory Address 2:
ST GEORGES STREET MILL, ST GEORGES STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
5 AND 7, ST GEORGES STREET
Statutory Address:
ST GEORGES STREET MILL, ST GEORGES STREET

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 91814 73085

Details

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9173SE ST GEORGE'S STREET 886-1/12/197 (West side) 17/03/77 Nos.5 AND 7 and St George's Street Mill (Formerly Listed as: PARK STREET (South side) Nos.25-31 (Odd)) (Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S STREET (West side) St George's Street Mill)

GV II

Silk throwing mill now in use as offices, and pair of houses with weavers' garrets. c1840, with C20 alterations. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 6-window range. Domestic in scale and detail. EXTERIOR: segmentally-arched entry to rear courtyard to left, 6-panelled door with radial fanlight to right, and 4 windows between them. Windows on each floor have wood mullions and transoms, with upper opening vents, and flat-arched gauged brick heads. Small upper panes in lower windows. Moulded wood eaves. Similar pattern of fenestration to rear elevation, with windows of 3 and 9 lights on upper floors, blocked openings (perhaps for loading?) on ground floor. INTERIOR: internal structure based on timber beams, with queen strut and king post roof. The mill building continues as the attic storey of Nos 5 & 7 St George's Street, which are single-unit, double-pile planned houses, forming a single build with the mill. Some original fenestration survives in No.5, but is renewed in original openings in No.7. The attic storeys have long workshop lights to the rear, and mullioned and transomed windows similar to those in the rest of the mill building to the front.

Listing NGR: SJ9181173081

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
391101
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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