Alma Mill
ALMA MILL, CROMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291799
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Alma Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ALMA MILL, CROMPTON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291799
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Alma Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMA MILL, CROMPTON ROAD
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:
- ALMA MILL, CROMPTON ROAD
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:
- SJ 91082 73576
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9173NW CROMPTON ROAD 886-1/9/73 (East side) Alma Mill
GV II
Silk weaving mill. c1823, with early C20 additions. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and basement, 8x3 bays. Gable faces street with stepped coping and flat roofed continuation to right over loading bays. Doorway in roll moulded architrave to ground floor, loading doors with hoist above entrance. 3 windows in the gable, and a single light in the apex. Transomed windows with flat-arched brick heads. Privy tower a small angled projection from rear gable. INTERIOR: internal structure comprises cast-iron columns carrying timber beams. Stairs immediately behind loading area adjacent to entrance. To the right of the gable facing the street, an office building. Early C20, single-storeyed with doorway to left and 2 windows. The mill was originally built for hand finishing or hand processing of silk, but an engine house (which no longer survives intact) was added to the mill by 1871. (Fricker, Calladine et al: Macclesfield Mills Survey).
Listing NGR: SJ9107673574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Calladine, A, Fricker, J et al, East Cheshire Textile Mills, (1993)
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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