Trencherfield Mill
TRENCHERFIELD MILL, POTTERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384508
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Trencherfield Mill
- Statutory Address:
- TRENCHERFIELD MILL, POTTERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384508
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Trencherfield Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENCHERFIELD MILL, POTTERY ROAD
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:
- TRENCHERFIELD MILL, POTTERY ROAD
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:
- SD 57831 05132
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE POTTERY ROAD
24-1/2/57 (South side)
14/05/97 Trencherfield Mill
GV II
Cotton spinning mill, now textile workshop, warehouse, museum,
offices etc. 1907-8, by Potts, Son and Hennings, for William
Woods & Son Ltd.; altered. Iron and steel frame with cladding
of red brick in English garden wall bond with dressings of
buff terracotta (roof concealed but probably asphalt). Very
large main range with tower at north-east corner, engine house
attached at right angles near south end of east side with
boiler house in south angle of this (and C20 tourist shop
attached to north side). Simplified Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and approximately 15 bays, 2 windows per
bay, with brick pilasters, the top floor featured with a
sillband, terracotta enrichment to the pilasters, 3-light
windows with blocked colonnette mullions, and parapet
upstands. Rectangular corner tower with various windows
including keyed oculi, and a 3-stage turret with a cornice to
the 1st stage, terracotta panels to the 2nd stage lettered
"1907" with open pediments above, and a square top stage,
banded, with a 3-light window in each side and a steep
pyramidal roof. 3-storey 8-window engine house with
round-headed windows at 1st floor level and oculi at 2nd floor
level, all keyed, in east end a very large lunette with 3
similar oculi above, and hipped roof.
INTERIOR: original 1906 4-cylinder triple-expansion tandem
steam engine by J & E Woods of Bolton, in working order.
Listing NGR: SD5783105132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484942
- 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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