Paragon Mill
PARAGON MILL, JERSEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1219048
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Paragon Mill
- Statutory Address:
- PARAGON MILL, JERSEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1219048
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Paragon Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARAGON MILL, JERSEY STREET
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:
- PARAGON MILL, JERSEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84961 98591
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498, JERSEY STREET, Ancoats,
698-1/17/453, (South side)
Paragon Mill
11/11/88
GV
II*
Cotton spinning mill. electrically powered. 1912 for McConnell
and Kennedy. Brick with white stone and terracotta dressings.
Concrete floor. Internal structure of cast iron columns, steel
beams and concrete floors. Six storeys, ten bays, trapeziform
plan, with ground floor extension designed to house
preparation machinery. External stair tower against S
elevation, and external towers built to house electric motors
also built against this wall. Simplified baroque detail, with
sill bands to ground and 1st floors, wide stone string course
between 4th and 5th floors, pilasters above and below this,
and corner turrets with segmentally-arched bands and banded
parapets; segmental-headed 9-pane 3-3-3 windows divided by
pilasters, with tower at SE corner surmounted by broken
pediment and parapet. W return side in similar style, with
narrow stair and sprinkler tower slightly canted back and
rising 2 further storeys. Entrance advanced from base of
tower, which is also linked by a bridge to the adjoining
Sedgwick New Mill (Sedgwick Mills, qv). Single-storeyed
extension (part of the original design) to the E of the site
intended to house preparation machinery.
The mill was built to an advanced design for electric power
using Manchester Corporation mains supply.
The mill forms part of the McConnell Kennedy works, together
with the earlier Sedgwick Mills and Royal Mill (qv). A further
mill (Long Mill) is no longer extant. McConnell Kennedy formed
one of the largest of the Manchester textile firms, which
amalgamated with the Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers
Association in 1898.
Early example of mains electrically powered mill, typifying
early C20 construction; important part of group of McConnell
Kennedy mills.
Listing NGR: SJ8496198591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388215
- 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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