Cobden Mill
COBDEN MILL, GOWER STREET, BL4 7HA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267978
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Cobden Mill
- Statutory Address:
- COBDEN MILL, GOWER STREET, BL4 7HA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267978
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Cobden Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- COBDEN MILL, GOWER STREET, BL4 7HA
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:
- COBDEN MILL, GOWER STREET, BL4 7HA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 73132 06281
Details
SD 70 NW,
797-0/9/10016
FARNWORTH,
GOWER STREET (South side),
Cobden Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill. C1890. Brick with flat roof and cast-iron, concrete and steel internal structure. Site comprises brick spinning mill of five storeys, with separate, lower taking-in and preparation block to the north, built alongside engine house; chimney, boiler house and ancillary buildings including former canteen.
EXTERIOR: the spinning block has two phases, of which the first comprises a building of 18x5 bays, extended" early C20 by the addition of a further four bays. Wide windows separated by narrow brick pilasters, a single window in each bay. Stair, hoist and water tower at NE angle. INTERIOR: cast-iron columns carry steel beams and concrete floors.
Warehouse/preparation block forms extension to mill at N end: 3 storeys; 8x3 bays, with 2 sets of taking-in doors (that to right original, with cast-iron re-inforcement to doorway) . Offices incorporated to east, with doorway (now blocked) in eastern elevation.
Engine house projects from NW of spinning block, alongside warehouse range.
The rope drive was formerly housed in a tower projecting from the centre of the north elevation of the spinning mill. Large boiler house and octagonal chimney surviving "to its full height to west of main mill building, and various ancillary buildings including former canteen (an early C20 addition) in
the yard to the west and the mill lodge (reservoir) survives to the east of the site.
A relatively complete site, and a good example of concrete and steel construction applied to a large open storeyed mill. Lacking in architectural embellishment, but in that representative of the 'modernism' of mill design which characterised building at the end of the C19 before the introduction of 'Baroque' style.
Listing NGR: SD7313206281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462369
- 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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