Vernon Mill
VERNON MILL, MERSEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268055
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Vernon Mill
- Statutory Address:
- VERNON MILL, MERSEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268055
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Vernon Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- VERNON MILL, MERSEY 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:
- VERNON MILL, MERSEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 90412 90824
Details
SJ99 SW MERSEY STREET
701-0/21/10011 (South side)
Vernon Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill, now various industrial units. Late C19/ early C20, before 1917. Red brick and terracotta, flat roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, approx 15 x 8 bays, 3-bay projection left, Italianate tower in angle with lettered parapet: 'VERNON', angle pilasters, tiled roof with wrought-iron cresting and flag pole; tower at NW corner. Large paired and triple windows with metal frames, pilasters between, moulded sill bands, modillion eaves and parapet. INTERIOR: steel frame with cast-iron columns, concrete floors; ground floor lateral segmental brick arches supported by tall cast-iron columns, flagstone floor.
W facade has added projecting covered loading bay centre, rope race tower right and lower attached engine house at SW corner with windows {reduced) in round-arched recesses and fine tall window {lower part now workshop entrance) on S side; arches have posts and keystones, low segmental gable pediment. Single and 2-storey preparation and loading warehouse range on the S side of the main block has inserted ground floor entrances, segmental-arched windows, upper floor loading door, roof lights, water tower. At the entrance to the mill, the NW corner, the single storey office/ reception block has stone detailing, round-arched windows of 2 and 3 lights, corner pilasters carried up above parapet height, no finials. Subsidiary features: the main mill entrance detailing includes office railings with bulbous finials on low brick and stone boundary wall; stone gate pier approx. 2.5m high with square base, moulded capstone with domed finial, attached gate with close-set rails and curved brace. A typical mill of the turn of the C20 century, demonstrating the changes in architectural form as improved technology allowed larger and better-lit mills to be built. This example was built close to the confluence of the Goyt and Tame rivers, in an area of mill expansion to the NE of the old town of Stockport.
Listing NGR: SJ9041290824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462281
- 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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