Little Mill

LITTLE MILL, JERSEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1282961
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
Statutory Address:
LITTLE MILL, JERSEY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1282961
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
Statutory Address 1:
LITTLE MILL, JERSEY STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
LITTLE MILL, JERSEY 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 85095 98667

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 JERSEY STREET, Ancoats 698-1/17/868 Little Mill

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Cotton spinning mill. Part of Murray's Mills (with Old Mill, Decker Mill, New Mill, Doubling Mill and Fireproof Mill, qv); now disused. Built to use mains electricity as its principal power source in 1908, rebuilding an earlier mill on the site of c1820. Brick, with internal construction of cast iron, steel and concrete. 5 storeys, 10x4 bays, with entrance, stair and privy tower advanced at NW angle, and tower housing electric motors projecting towards the NE. Wide segmentally arched windows (3 per bay in longitudinal axis) with simplified detailing, including cornice over 4th storey, and panelled angle pilasters to tower with swept segmental parapet running between them. Included as a significant part of Murray's Mills, important as an example of large-scale operation. Little Mill is also the earliest mill in Greater Manchester to be built to use mains electricty. (Williams M: Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester: London: 1992-: 134 & 162).

Listing NGR: SJ8509598667

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Legacy System:
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Williams, , Farnie, , Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester, (1993), 134 & 162

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