Trafalgar Mill Walker Hey Footbridge
TRAFALGAR MILL, TRAFALGAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1313387
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1991
- Statutory Address:
- TRAFALGAR MILL, TRAFALGAR STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-08-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/06873/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1313387
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1991
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRAFALGAR MILL, TRAFALGAR STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WALKER HEY FOOTBRIDGE, TRAFALGAR STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TRAFALGAR MILL, TRAFALGAR STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WALKER HEY FOOTBRIDGE, TRAFALGAR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83629 32382
Details
BURNLEY
SD8332SE TRAFALGAR STREET 906-1/19/148 (North East side) 02/04/91 Trafalgar Mill and Walker Hey Footbridge
GV II
Former cotton mill, now used for a variety of commercial and leisure purposes. Complex building history: original mill for spinning built 1846 for WH Halstead with internal transverse engine house and fireproofed stairs. Converted into an integrated mill with external engine house, boiler house, water tank and weaving sheds added 1867. Mill extended and heightened, office and stair tower added 1872. Later minor alterations. Walker Hey footbridge built 1891-2 to give workers quicker access to town centre. Coursed millstone grit rubble; slate roofs. EXTERIOR: main mill building 3 storeys with attic and basement; 16 bays by 5; 2-light windows. A vertical joint marks the 1872 extension (towards Trafalgar Street); the former eaves cornice of the old range now forms a transom to the top-floor windows. Gabled combined stair and privy block to left elevation; gabled hoist to right (slate hung to sides). Street elevation with regular fenestration to all floors and triple round-headed lancets and oculus to gable wall. To left, the 5-stage stair/water tower with one small round-headed window to each stage and left of this a single-storeyed range, partly of brick, with a single doorway only towards the street. Canal elevation with 6-window warehouse range, 2 storeys, one of the window bays cut through to provide covered section of walkway leading to footbridge. Adjacent to this is the boiler house. Stack plinth on return. Between the canalside and roadside ranges and set low are the weaving sheds, with part slate and part glazed roofs in the normal fashion. INTERIOR intact: cast-iron columns with shaped brackets, remarkably slim to upper floors. That part of the main range between the engine house and fireproofed stairs is flag-floored. Bridge is of iron with swan-necked supports and cross braces. Trafalgar Mill well illustrates the complex building history associated with a single-industry site over a period of half a century.
Listing NGR: SD8363032381
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 467237
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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