Former Warehouse and Offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill
FORMER WAREHOUSE AND OFFICES OF OLD MILL, DECKER MILL, AND NEW MILL, MURRAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220282
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Warehouse and Offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WAREHOUSE AND OFFICES OF OLD MILL, DECKER MILL, AND NEW MILL, MURRAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220282
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Warehouse and Offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WAREHOUSE AND OFFICES OF OLD MILL, DECKER MILL, AND NEW MILL, MURRAY 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:
- FORMER WAREHOUSE AND OFFICES OF OLD MILL, DECKER MILL, AND NEW MILL, MURRAY 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 85033 98601
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8598 MURRAY STREET, Ancoats 698-1/17/456 (East side) 28/02/75 Former Warehouse and Offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill (Formerly Listed as: JERSEY STREET, Ancoats (East side) Former Cotton Mill of Adam Murray)
GV II
Office and warehouse range serving adjacent cotton spinning mills. c1806. Brick with slate roof. Originally a 4-storeyed building symmetrically planned with 10-window ranges each side of central entrance, but the left hand range which extended to New Mill (qv) has been reduced in height to 2 storeys. Right hand range survives as 4 storeys. Central entrance formed main access to courtyard/canal basin for Old Mill, Decker Mill and New Mill (qv). Stone voussoir arch, with tripartite windows in upper storeys above. Other windows renewed in original openings with cambered brick heads. In rear elevation, oriel window of office to S of entrance arch. The building formed part of Adam and George Murray's textile works, established on this site in 1798 and expanded to form a courtyard in which 3 spinning mills were linked by warehouse and office blocks around a courtyard and canal basin. Included as an important component of this textile working site, and representing an early example of a specifically industrial architecture.
Listing NGR: SJ8503398601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388341
- 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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