Heybrook Mill
Heybrook Mill, Hamer Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268009
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Heybrook Mill
- Statutory Address:
- Heybrook Mill, Hamer Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268009
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Heybrook Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Heybrook Mill, Hamer 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:
- Heybrook Mill, Hamer Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9060114105
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 September 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SD91SW
335-0/7/10022
Mayfield
ROCHDALE
HAMER LANE, (West side)
Heybrook Mill
II
Includes: Heybrook House Flats and attached boundary wall and gate piers ENTWISLE STREET.
Woollen mill and mill housing with boundary wall and gate piers. Mid C19. Coursed squared gritstone and brick, slate roofs. The site comprises the three-storey, seven-bay mill and a rear range at right angles, now housing, which was probably part of the complex.
EXTERIOR: main range parallel to street: entrance bay six, loading doors above, probably secondary as the tie-stone jambs match windows and do not extend below sill level. C20 doors, window frames. Paired windows on left return, no fenestration on the rear wall, but the careful stone coursing is altered to rubble where the mill wall is obscured by No.4 Hey Brook House (not included) .The North gable end is rendered brick. The rear range, with access from Entwisle Street, comprises four single-fronted houses, the far left (No.1) and the third, (No.3) projecting, with hipped and gabled roofs. The coursed stonework centre and right is similar to the mill, to left the courses are thinner. The group has six-panel doors with overlights, Nos 1 and 2 with blocking piece above the cornice, Nos 3 and 4 have a shallow entablature below the cornice; plain stone surrounds. Fenestration varies on ground floor, left to right: four-pane sashes, wooden canted bay, two-light mullion, full-height stone canted bay. Other windows on lst floor are similar to the mill, with tie stone jambs. Nos 3 and 4 have a moulded stone eaves cornice, that to Nos 1 and 2 is in timber.
Rear: brown brick in 5:1 English bond, right end rendered. Blocked paired round brick arches centre, inserted doors and windows, first floor former sash windows have stone lintels. The right return of the houses is attached to the mill with two brick arched buttresses and a brick wall.
Front boundary wall: approx. 2m high, coursed stone, extends from the South West corner of the mill and encloses a garden area, having a gateway on Entwisle Street with monolithic stone shafts approx. 2.5m high, with single-stone gabled capstones.
HISTORY: the 1848 map shows Hey Brook House on the site of the four houses, with a long attached range along Hamer Lane and returning on Yorkshire Street, with a rear yard entrance from the latter. The round-arched range opened onto the rear yard and the architectural evidence suggests that the house was rebuilt as smaller houses, probably shortly after the map was published.
Although incomplete, Heybrook Mill is an early surviving woollen mill in Rochdale, which had a thriving woollen industry before the introduction of cotton production.
Listing NGR: SD9060114105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462320
- 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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