Royal Mill
ROYAL MILL, REDHILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247474
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL MILL, REDHILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247474
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL MILL, REDHILL 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:
- ROYAL MILL, REDHILL 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:
- SJ8497598526
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498 REDHILL STREET, Ancoats
698-1/17/462 (North West side)
11/11/88 Royal Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
HENRY STREET, Ancoats
(North East side)
Royal Mill)
GV II*
Cotton spinning mill, now clothing works. Dated 1912, and
built to use mains electricity. Red brick with terracotta and
stone dressings, with cast iron, steel and concrete internal
structure. Distinctive baroque detailing. 6 storeys, 10x3
bays, with external stair-tower at NW corner, surmounted by
dome, with electric motors housed in towers projecting from E
wall. 7 storey entrance block to Redhill Street elevation,
built over courtyard entrance and linking Royal Mill with the
earlier Sedgwick Mills (qv). This has large segmental archway
with cast iron surround. Office to right of entrance, with
segmental doorway. Narrow advanced privy turret to left of
entrance, with pairs of narrow windows to all floors, and
cornice and segmental pedimented parapet. Water tower set back
behind entrance block. Wide segmentally arched windows in each
bay of main body of mill, which is enriched with banded and
panelled corner pilasters, and heavy stone band above 3rd
floor windows.
The mill forms part of the McConnell Kennedy works, together
with the earlier Sedgwick Mills and Paragaon Mill (qv). A
further mill (Long Mill) is no longer extant. A stone over the
entrance records that the mill replaced an earlier building on
the site, originally built in 1797.
Included as an early example of a mill designed to use mains
electricity from the outset, which forms an important part of
the McConnell Kennedy works.
Listing NGR: SJ8497598526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456965
- 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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