Ena Mill
Ena Mill, Flapper Fold Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253159
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Ena Mill
- Statutory Address:
- Ena Mill, Flapper Fold Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253159
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Ena Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ena Mill, Flapper Fold Lane
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:
- Ena Mill, Flapper Fold Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 67253 03522
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8th February 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
SD 60 SE
2/76
ATHERTON
FLAPPER FOLD LANE
Ena Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill (formerly for mule spindles). 1908 by G Temperley & Son architects of Bolton. Red brick with stone and buff terracotta dressings; iron (or steel) girders with concrete floors. Aligned east/west.
Five storeyed mill with two-storeyed carding room projecting to south; external engine house with rope race to end wall of mill; adjoining boiler house and stack (to south east); stair/sprinkler tower (to north east).Twelve x nine bays, the long elevations with three windows per bay, each bay divided by shallow pilaster buttresses; plain buff bonding at lintel level. Cambered window arches to top floor only; low parapet raised over central bay Tower rises two storeys above parapet level; show front (north) with central window to each stage under variedly treated entablatures; segmental pediment above parapet level (of mill) to each face; three round-headed windows beneath parapet with low corner turrets. Engine house (with tall round-headed windows with glazing bars) and boiler house with low parapets. Stack of circular section with moulded and panelled cap.
Interior: circular section-columns with simple shaped capitals.
A good, complete example of a late Edwardian mill; it was lit by electricity generated by its own dynamo. It was designed to accommodate 87,072 mule spindles and 12,880 ring spindles.
Listing NGR: SD6725303522
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213539
- 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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