Horrockses Mill
HORROCKSES MILL, LORNE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267980
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Horrockses Mill
- Statutory Address:
- HORROCKSES MILL, LORNE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267980
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Horrockses Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORROCKSES MILL, LORNE 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:
- HORROCKSES MILL, LORNE STREET
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 73118 06774
Details
FARNWORTH
SD70NW LORNE STREET
797-0/9/10015 (North side)
Horrockses Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill, 1915, for Horrockses and Crewdson. Brick with concrete and steel internal structure, and slate roofs. Steam powered.
EXTERIOR: Front building is 3-storeyed, 8x5 bays, the windows grouped in 3s between pilasters. Main block is 5-storeyed, almost square in plan, with windows paired between pilasters, and towers at 3 angles. Towers all ribbed by pilasters, with curved corbelling to upper stage; embattled parapets, the SE tower terminating in pyramidal roof. Engine house (3 storeys, 5x3 bays) projects from SW angle of main block, and has corner pilasters similar to those of the mill towers. Behind is a tall single-storey warehouse with east-light roof. 2-storeyed 11x4 bay range projects from NW of main block. Crewdson, Crosses and Co Ltd merged with Horrockses in 1887. Regrettably, Crewdson’s detached late C19 weaving mill to E of site was demolished in 2008 without consent. An impressive example of C20 mill architecture, which uses lavish embellishment and strong architectural forms to create a strong company identity.
(Greater Manchester Sites and Monuments Record)
Listing NGR: SD7311806774
The entry was enhanced in 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Longworth, J, The Cotton Mills of Bolton 1780 to 1985, (1987)
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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