LITTLE STREET MILL

6-12, LITTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280007
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: LITTLE STREET MILL
Statutory Address:: 6-12, LITTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280007
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1990
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: LITTLE STREET MILL
Statutory Address 1:: 6-12, LITTLE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: LITTLE STREET MILL, KING EDWARD STREET
Statutory Address 3:: LITTLE STREET MILL, LITTLE 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:: 6-12, LITTLE STREET
Statutory Address:: LITTLE STREET MILL, KING EDWARD STREET
Statutory Address:: LITTLE STREET MILL, LITTLE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Macclesfield
National Grid Reference:: SJ9150073825

Details

SJ9173NW 886-1/9/116 18/04/90

MACCLESFIELD LITTLE STREET Nos.6-12 (Even) and Little Street Mill (Formerly Listed as: LITTLE STREET Little Street Mill and Nos.6, 8, 10 and 12 (inclusive)) II GV

Former integrated silk mill, comprising mill, dye-house, manager's and workers' housing, with workshops and warehouse. 1804 (map and documentary evidence supplied by East Cheshire Textile Mill Survey), extended in 1909 (datestone), and later C20 (to W). Brick in English garden wall bond; mostly Welsh slate roofs. PLAN: the mill and the houses form the 2 long sides of the mill yard and are connected along the N end by the 1909 stable/warehouse/entrance range, the entrance giving on to King Edward Street. EXTERIOR: Mill: 3 storeys, 7-window range. E elevation (towards yard): original windows all with brick cambered arches. 2nd-floor windows with original timber frames with 36 or 40 panes. 8 windows and a taking-in door to 1st floor, the windows with renewed 2-light casement with glazing bars. Ground floor with 5 original window openings (renewed casements) and one large C20 plate-glass window and large double doors. Stair turret to extreme left (SE), an early addition under graduated slate roof. C19 building of uncertain origin to W (possibly an engine house); the original horse-powered and early steam engine houses replaced with the 1909 range. W elevation of mill obscured externally by late C19 extensions, but fenestration survives largely intact. 1909 range. For Wood and Son, victuallers. 2 storeys, 7-window range, brick cambered window arch and loading door to 1st floor level; large wooden doors and engineering brick jambs. Engineering brick to rounded corners. Little Street elevation, 2 windows (on front), and later insertions to ground floor. Domestic ranges (to Little Street): manager's house, 3 double-depth with rear central stairs; workshop accommodation to upper floor (2 large 3-light windows under flat arches, C20 casements); 2 large 3-light C20 casements in original cambered arched openings to 1st floor; similar windows to ground floor flank central pegged doorway with recessed panelled door. End stacks. Adjacent range, 2 storeys with one large 16-pane sash window to 1st floor, C20 window and half glazed door below. Mill yard elevation: some early features including tall window to stairs, and pegged door surround. Two C20 windows in early openings. INTERIOR: mill; ground floor with (apparently) inserted cast-iron columns, 1st floor with square wooden posts. Open-tread stairs to SE and NE (1st and 2nd floors). King post roof. Manager's house with stair (ramped rail, turned newels and stick balusters); roof with queen posts, upper king post, and back purlins. (The garret door could only be unblocked from the house side). To the S is a stone-flagged dye-house (not inspected). This is a good early example of an integrated factory site where all the processes were conducted, and where the manager and some of the workers also lived. The mill was originally horse-powered (documentary evidence) but there appears to be no structural evidence surviving for this.

Listing NGR: SJ 91500 73825

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Legacy System number:: 391022
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.