Trafford Mill
TRAFFORD MILL, WARRINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229631
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Trafford Mill
- Statutory Address:
- TRAFFORD MILL, WARRINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229631
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Trafford Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRAFFORD MILL, WARRINGTON ROAD
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:
- TRAFFORD MILL, WARRINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mickle Trafford and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 45013 70834
Details
SJ 47 SE MICKLE TRAFFORD C.P. WARRINGTON ROAD (South Side)
3/27 Trafford Mill
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- II
Water-powered corn mill: c.1830 on earlier foundations with later C19 extensions, all for the Earls of Shrewsbury. Irregular bond orange brick, Welsh slate roof and I brick chimney. Long L-shaped plan. 2-storey 12 -bay west front. Dentil brick cornice. Left end bay has stone wheelpit with 2 segmental brick arches on a stone pier and the 7th bay is another wheelpit with a single segmental arch. The bays between have small-pane windows under weak segmental heads and on door and another door into an added gable porch. The remainder is an addition of a driftway, a large cartshed and a shippon at right angles. Cartshed and driftway have heavy wooden lintels, and the remainder similar but larger openings than to the original part. Interior: being restored as a working museum. North wheelpit has unusual cast-iron single-spoke wheel connected to flour sifting machinery dated 1883. South wheelpit has restored low breast wheel and complete train of machinery driving 3 pairs of stones (in use until 1952). Ground floor is quarry tiled and has corner cast-iron fireplace. For history see G.Coppack "A Country Mill, the history of Trafford Mill" unpublished thesis, Keele University, 1980.
Listing NGR: SJ4501370834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404433
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coppack, G, A Country Mill the History of Trafford Mill, (1980)
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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