NORWICH STREET MILLS

NORWICH STREET MILLS, NORWICH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268012
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: NORWICH STREET MILLS
Statutory Address:: NORWICH STREET MILLS, NORWICH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268012
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: NORWICH STREET MILLS
Statutory Address 1:: NORWICH STREET MILLS, NORWICH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NORWICH STREET MILLS, NORWICH STREET

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:: SD 90224 12322

Details

ROCHDALE

SD91SW NORWICH STREET, Lower Place 335-0/7/10021 (East side) Norwich Street Mills

II

Cotton spinning and weaving mill, now textile company buildings. c1860. Red brick, stone details, slate roofs. PLAN: the site, built on the Rochdale Canal at its junction with a north branch, comprises 8 elements: the main mill with attached engine house; the open-sided boiler house on the south side; workshops attached to the boiler house; the chimney; the site of the weaving sheds on the south side of the main mill; a workshop and engine house standing across the mill yard on the north side of the main building; a 2-storey warehouse built on the edge of the canal to north again; remains of ornate walls and railings on the canal side. EXTERIOR: the Italianate main spinning mill dominates the site. It is rectangular in plan, 3 and 4 storeys high, 7 x 22 bays. The narrower east facade faces the Rochdale Canal and has loading doors left, corner pilasters, flat roof. North side has entrance bay 3 with keyed round arch, stair/ water tower with hipped roof above bay 4, pilaster between bays 5 and 6. Large rectangular windows, some on the south side retain cast-iron small-pane frames, the central panes pivoted; the south side also has 5-sided projecting privy tower towards left end; added projecting full-height block far left, built in lighter red brick. The building is clearly divided laterally with the entrance and stair tower on the axis of the internal division, expressed by the buttress on the outside. On the south side: the engine house with round-arched window (blocked) and corner pilasters as mill. The single-storey L-plan boiler house, probably for Lancashire boilers, is open-sided towards the canal, with 5 round arches, now boarded up, hipped roof. Added lean-to. The taller 2-storey workshop block at the south end of the boiler house has small-pane windows and hipped roof. The octagonal brick chimney stands close by, the crown missing. The site of the weaving sheds is on the south side of the main spinning mill, and survives as a road-side wall on Norwich Street. The workshop and engine house to north of the main block is of white-painted brick, with parallel hipped slate roofs; 2 storeys and 2 bays; the engine house set back on left has a round-arched window with mullion and plate-tracery style frame, 2 more windows on left return. The workshop has rectangular windows with projecting stone sills, large inserted loading door towards canal. The second white-painted block is 2 storeys, 9 bays with parallel hipped roofs. Tall rectangular windows on canal-side, gabled loading door on left return, ground floor entrance altered. Subsidiary features: the stonewalling of the canal and a short length of wrought-iron railings with bars, dog bars, spear-head finials are included in the listing. A varied group of mill buildings in an important setting on the canal side. The substantial remains illustrate the quality of large mill building at a time when the cotton industry was booming.

Listing NGR: SD9022412322

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.