QUARRY BANK MILL

QUARRY BANK MILL, QUARRY BANK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237687
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:: QUARRY BANK MILL
Statutory Address:: QUARRY BANK MILL, QUARRY BANK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237687
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:: QUARRY BANK MILL
Statutory Address 1:: QUARRY BANK MILL, QUARRY BANK ROAD

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:: QUARRY BANK MILL, QUARRY BANK ROAD

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Styal
National Grid Reference:: SJ 83443 82988

Details

SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. QUARRY BANK ROAD

1/303 Quarry Bank Mill (formerly listed under Styal) 30/3/1951

GV II*

Cotton spinning and weaving mill: dated 1784 for Samuel Greg, expanded from 1808 - c.1820 to present size with addition of weaving shed of 1834 and mill offices c.1860. Restoration dated 1969. English garden wall bond red brick. Welsh slate roof, tall octagonal mill chimney. 5-storey, 23-bay east front. Right 3 bays projecting under stone-coped pediment are original portion. 20-pane windows with stone sills under cambered brick heads. Central ovolo-moulded stone doorcase with triangular pediment and repainted quaint inscription reading "Quarry Bank Mills Built by Samuel Greg Esquire of Belfast Ireland Anno Domini 1784". Clock in pediment and open bellcote with lead cupola on ridge. Central 13 bays have similar 20-pane windows and left ? bays project under a gambrel roof. Further additions to south end include 8-bay mill offices with hipped roof. West front has lower range along river side and date of 1810 over wheel out-flow. At south end is a 4-storey weaving shed with flat stone wedged heads to lower windows. Interior: Floors divided by simple iron columns carrying wooden joists. 2 closed string stone staircases. Mill offices retain their original fittings.

Massive wheelpit of 1819 formerly contained 32 ft. diameter waterwheel by Thomas Hewes, replaced by 2 turbines in 1904. A 25 ft diameter waterwheel similar in design to Hewes's and by his pupil Sir William Fairbairn, from Glasshouses Mill, Pateley Bridge is soon to be installed (1983). For full history see M B Rose The Gregs of Styal National Trust, 1978.

Listing NGR: SJ8344382988

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 414953
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Rose, M B, The Gregs of Styal, (1978)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.