CENTENARY MILL

CENTENARY MILL, NEW HALL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218681
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: CENTENARY MILL
Statutory Address:: CENTENARY MILL, NEW HALL LANE

Horrocks' Centenary Mill on New Hall Lane viewed from the bank of the River Ribble at Fishwick Bottoms. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218681
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: CENTENARY MILL
Statutory Address 1:: CENTENARY MILL, NEW HALL LANE

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:: CENTENARY MILL, NEW HALL LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 55026 29696

Details

PRESTON

SD5429 NEW HALL LANE 941-1/7/217 (North side) 18/10/88 Centenary Mill

II

Cotton spinning mill, now warehouse. 1891-96 (office dated 1896), for Horrocks, Crewdson & Co, with later extensions and modifications. Brick with stone dressings, slate roofs. Main mill with attached carding sheds, engine house, boiler house and chimney, with later office/gatehouse and gates, all survive intact. Rectangular, with stair towers at the SW and SE corners, sprinkler tower at NW corner, engine house attached at right-angles to north side, office and gatehouse at SW corner. Four storeys over basement, a 23-window range, with high stone basement, stone sill-bands to 1st and 2nd floors, pilasters to top 2 floors, parapet with flat stone coping; large slightly-recessed 9-pane windows, those at 2nd floor square-headed with stone lintels, all the others segmental-headed and those at top floor with imposts and keystones; square towers at each end with matching fenestration to the front, stone bands to the parapets, former turrets removed. Rear: large rectangular 2-storey engine house with 8-window sides has giant round-headed stone archway in end wall, with high channelled piers, Ionic columns, and double semicircular arched head with radiating mullions. Chimney (connected to west of engine house, by boiler house) with square plinth, moulded stone base, and tall tapered square stack (slightly cut down). To east of engine house, large single-storey carding shed with north-light roofs. History: named Centenary Mill to commemorate foundation of John Horrocks first mill; one of the first mills in Britain to incorporate rolled-steel beams and concrete floors.

Listing NGR: SD5502629696

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Legacy System number:: 392105
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.