TRENCHERFIELD MILL

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:: TRENCHERFIELD MILL, POTTERY ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 484942
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.