Spectator Mill
SPECTATOR MILL, SPECTATOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270677
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Spectator Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SPECTATOR MILL, SPECTATOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270677
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Spectator Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPECTATOR MILL, SPECTATOR 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:
- SPECTATOR MILL, SPECTATOR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85760 98563
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8598 SPECTATOR STREET 698-1/17/543 (North West side) Beswick And Clayton Spectator Mill
GV II
Silk mill, now various workshops. Early to mid C19; altered. Brown brick (now rendered at ground floor) with some sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan with projecting stair-turret at south-east corner and projecting tower (dust flue?) near west end. Six storeys and 7 windows, with tower between 2nd and 3rd; round-headed doorway in re-entrant wall of stair-turret, otherwise most ground-floor openings altered; segmental-headed windows with raised sills; narrow rectangular full-height tower between 2nd and 3rd windows, with diamond-pattern breathers (as found in agricultural buildings) on 4 levels. Interior not inspected. Forms part of impressive and evocative group of former mill buildings lining Ashton Canal in this locality.
Listing NGR: SJ8576098563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457642
- 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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