Centenary Mill
CENTENARY MILL, NEW HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1218681
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- Statutory Address:
- CENTENARY MILL, NEW HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1218681
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTENARY MILL, NEW HALL LANE
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
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 392105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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