Greenups Mill
GREENUPS MILL, TOWN HALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313740
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Greenups Mill
- Statutory Address:
- GREENUPS MILL, TOWN HALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313740
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Greenups Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENUPS MILL, TOWN HALL 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:
- GREENUPS MILL, TOWN HALL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 05996 23569
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN FALL STREET SE 0423 & SE 0523 (south side, off) 12/284 18.2.87 Greenups Mill GV II Wool textile mill now commercial premises. 1793 for William Greenup (Fitzgerald) with additions and alterations 2nd ½ C19. Coursed stone, stone slate roof. 4 storeys, 10 bays with block added to south, front additions to either end of east front, and wings added at right-angle projecting from either end of west front, all these additions being not of special interest. East front: gable over 3 central bays. Ground floor: much altered; bays 5 and 6 have inserted shouldered carriage-arch, the arch replaced by a girder; to right of this a blocked round archway (probably originally one of a pair), a window, a wide doorway now window, another window. 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors each have a central loading door with an oculus above in the gable and windows with plain stone surrounds, the cills lowered in order to accommodate later 9-Pane windows. Louvres to ridge. Rear of main range: windows as front; a round-arched doorway flanked by wide lights (said to make access to water courses (Fitzgerald) and above it, to left , a loading door. Shaped gutter brackets. Interior: cast-iron columns, reportedly post-1840 (Fitzgerald) supporting large-scantling cross-beams. Upper floors not inspected, but reported to have queen-post timber roof trusses with later gallery inserted between queen posts (Fitzgerald). Although there has been mill on the site since at least 1752 and mill buildings were built and added to throughout the 2nd ½ of the C18 it appears that the mill which now occupies the site was built in 1793, the building date given by George Greenup (son of William Greenup) at an enquiry of 1834. The mill was water-powered and used for woollen-carding, spinning and filling. Fitzgerald suggests that William Greenup must share with Benjamin Gott of Bean Ing Mill, Leeds, the credit for pioneering attempts to factoryise the entire process of cloth manufacture, although Gott's complex (built in 1792) was entirely steam-powered. Calderdale Archive Service, Wi11iam and George Grrenup: Sowerby Bridge: Merchants 1754-1824 SPL : 384-385; RS Fitzgerald, "Reviving the heart of Sowerby Bridge Appendix A', typescript; RCHM (E) report.
Listing NGR: SE0599623569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339416
- 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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