Chatham Mill
CHATHAM MILL, CHESTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293040
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chatham Mill
- Statutory Address:
- CHATHAM MILL, CHESTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293040
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chatham Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHATHAM MILL, CHESTER 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:
- CHATHAM MILL, CHESTER 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 84068 97289
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8397 CHESTER STREET 698-1/19/61 (South side) 11/03/88 Chatham Mill
GV II
Cotton spinning mill, now used as warehousing etc. 1820, with extension of 1823 along Lower Ormand Street. Brick with slate roof, which has clerestory windows. Original block is 6-storeyed, 17 bays, with site of internal engine house against gable wall to SW (round-arched opening partially blocked and cut by C20 loading bay), with remains of chimney aligned with this to NW. Taking-in doors to all floors towards centre of rear elevation, reinforced with cast iron. Entrance leading to staircase in rusticated arch in NE corner, within archway to courtyard formed after extension of mill. Small rectangular windows with cambered brickheads in each bay. 4-storeyed 12 bay wing to Lower Ormand Street, with courtyard entry to left, and central doorway. Interior construction has timber floors carried on cast iron columns in original range, and fireproof construction to 1823 wing, in which cast iron columns and beams carry transverse brick arches. Layout of mill, including position of taking-in doors suggests possible origins as room and power mill. Included as a typical and coherent example of an early C19 mill, in which a single range has been extended to form an L-plan, itself a typical pattern of growth.
Listing NGR: SJ8406897289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388009
- 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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