Mather Lane Mill
MATHER LANE MILL, 2, MATHER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356246
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Mather Lane Mill
- Statutory Address:
- MATHER LANE MILL, 2, MATHER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356246
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Mather Lane Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- MATHER LANE MILL, 2, MATHER LANE
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:
- MATHER LANE MILL, 2, MATHER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 66294 99725
Details
The following building shall be added: LEIGH MATHER LANE SJ 69 NE 6/61 Mather Lane Mill GV No 2 II Cotton spinning mill, converted to various uses. 1882 by Bradshaw and Gas, architect of Bolton. Brick in 3:1 English garden wall bond; iron-framed window bays (to E and W). Six storeys (and basement); 6 x 10 windows bays (but square on plan) with carding sheds (3 storeys and basement) attached to S, parallel to Bridgwater Canal but set obliquely to main range. Integral, partly internal engine house to N, stair/sprinkler tower to NW corner, ventilator/dust flue to NE corner. To E and W sides, large windows (small panes) with continuous central iron box columns (in the form of mullions with shaped capitals) which rise uninterrupted through first to fourth floors. Smaller single-light windows to North and South. Panelled corner pilasters and dust flue: Stair/sprinkler tower also panelled with moulded string, courses,rises one full (but subdivided) stage above mill parapet level; large lunette with blind arcade of small round-headed arches; parapet and pyramidal cap. Interior not fully inspected but contains iron girders on Tuscan columns. Mather Lane Mill is one of the more important factory designs by Bradshaw and Gas, an innovatory, technically biased architectural practice. Various features are unusual for the date including the square plan, flat roof and partly internal engine house. The mill is illustrated in E Jones, Industrial Architecture in Britain, 1750-1919 and is notable for its severe classical elevations.
Listing NGR: SJ6629499725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213540
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jones, E, Industrial Architecture in Britain 1750-1939, (1985)
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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