Arrow Vale Mill
ARROW VALE MILL, QUEENSWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268015
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Arrow Vale Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ARROW VALE MILL, QUEENSWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268015
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Arrow Vale Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARROW VALE MILL, QUEENSWAY
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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:
- ARROW VALE MILL, QUEENSWAY
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 88614 10918
Details
ROCHDALE
SD81SE QUEENSWAY, Castleton
335-0/6/10018 (West side)
Arrow (Vale) Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill. Built by 1908. Steel and concrete internal structure, walls of red brick, ashlar details, grey slates. The group survives almost intact and is composed of a single building housing the primary production processes, an office/ reception building, engine house attached at rear corner, and separate boiler house and chimney.
EXTERIOR: the main building is 5 storeys, 44x5 bays, with water tower at NE corner with 'ARROW' and tall hipped roof with band of glazing and wrought-iron balustrade, smaller corner towers; tall thin rectangular windows, stone sills, brick lintels, brick pilasters to rope race on N side, engine house with round-arched recess and corner pilasters at N end of W side. 2-storey carding/ preparation room parallel to road. 2-storey office block at NE corner has ashlar bands, pedimented entrance, plate glass sashes with decorative etched panes, blind parapet. Workshops/ boiler house and cylindrical chimney with moulded crown to NW.
HISTORY: the mill stands on the south side of the Rochdale canal. The J and W McNaught 1700hp vertical triple expansion steam engine was made in 1907; it weighed 47 tons and drove 40 ropes, the fly wheel measuring 22' diameter. By the 1950s the engine was driving an alternator and many electrically driven frames were installed then. The engine was scrapped about 1960. A good example of early C20 mill architecture surviving almost complete.
(Bradford City Libraries Register of Historic Steam Engines: Watkins G (University of Bath) : Record No.15291-55D81-121).
Listing NGR: SD8861410918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462326
- 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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