Former Steam Flour Mill at SJ 4127 6662
FORMER STEAM FLOUR MILL AT SJ 4127 6662, STEAM MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375938
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Steam Flour Mill at SJ 4127 6662
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER STEAM FLOUR MILL AT SJ 4127 6662, STEAM MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375938
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Steam Flour Mill at SJ 4127 6662
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER STEAM FLOUR MILL AT SJ 4127 6662, STEAM MILL 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:
- FORMER STEAM FLOUR MILL AT SJ 4127 6662, STEAM MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41270 66620
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 STEAM MILL STREET 1932-1/6/267 (West side) 06/11/89 Former Steam Flour Mill at SJ 4127 6662
GV II
Former steam-powered flour mill, now warehouse and workshop. c1785 and early and mid C19, with chimney above roof-level, boilerhouse and engine house since demolished. Brown brick in irregular English garden wall bond; grey slate roofs. PLAN/EXTERIOR: erected in 3 phases, the present building is U-shaped; the middle wing facing Steam Mill Street stands in the position of the Steam Mill shown on Weston's map of Chester dated 1789 and incorporates what may be original cast-iron columns and beams; the 4-storey north wing facing the Chester Canal is probably early C19; the external features of the middle and south wings are probably 1840s. The square internal chimney below roof level survives at the junction of the middle and south wings. The building is functional with no applied ornament. Stone sills and cambered brick window-heads; some openings are bricked up and a few are altered; those in the middle and south wings have 36-72 pane cast-iron windows, some with hoppers of 4-panes and some with inserted casements; a round-arched window in gable of loft; the north wing has no sills and replaced 2-pane horizontally-sliding sashes. The eaves and verges of the north wing are simply corbelled in brick; the middle and south wings have stone-coped parapet gables. INTERIOR: the north wing could not be inspected; the middle wing is of 4 bays with round cast-iron columns carrying heavy T-shaped iron beams some with damaged webs; the webs form shallow triangles, increasing in depth towards the centre of span. The south wing has large timber beams on inserted riveted stanchions and a goods lift in a shaft dated 1898. The external walls are up to 3 feet (1m) thick. Of prime interest are the very early establishment of a steam-powered canal-side flour mill and the cast-iron columns and beams. (Map of the Loyal City of Chester: Surveyed by Samuel Weston; Engraved by James Hunter: 1789-; Ordnance Survey Town Map of Chester: 1875-).
Listing NGR: SJ4127066620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469917
- 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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