Lion Mill
LION MILL, FITTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376630
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lion Mill
- Statutory Address:
- LION MILL, FITTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376630
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lion Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- LION MILL, FITTON 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:
- LION MILL, FITTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 92744 07605
Details
ROYTON
SD90NW FITTON STREET
780-0/4/10011 Lion Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill, steam powered. 1890 by Wild, Collins and Wild, for King Spinning Company Ltd. Card shed extended 1891, and new warehouse added 1892. Cast-iron and steel-framed, brick-arched construction, brick cladding.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys, wide rectilinear planning of 23x10 bays between angles stressed by panelled pilasters each side of narrow stilted arched windows.
Main sprinkler and stair tower projects from NE elevation, dividing it into 2 unequal parts, probably corresponding to major internal structural division. Tower projects by 2 storeys above the roof line, and has Italianate detailing, with paired round-arched windows on each floor, white brick lettering and balustrated parapet Further, blind tower projects from SW angle.
Elevations otherwise undivided, each bay containing a tall, segmentally-arched window.
Loading area in NW elevation with cast-iron reinforcements to taking in doors in bays 1 and 2.
Power transmission to SW, with projecting engine house with 5 round-arched windows and a partial glazed lantern roof.
Boiler house does not survive, but chimney alongside engine house.
Detached office building adjacent to gate to SE,
single-storeyed, 5 bays with central door and round-arched
windows flanking it. Hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapet. , 2-storeyed warehouse of 10x2 bays faces the mill across a yard to the NW.
Included as a good example of mill building for its date, surviving almost intact with its separate warehouse.
(Gurr, Duncan and Hunt: The Cotton Mills of Oldham: Oldham: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SD8571302947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470636
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gurr, Duncan, Hunt, , The Cotton Mills of Oldham, (1989)
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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