ISLINGTON MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE AND BOILER HOUSES, WAREHOUSE AND STABLING

ISLINGTON MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE AND BOILER HOUSES, WAREHOUSE AND STABLING, JAMES STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386142
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: ISLINGTON MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE AND BOILER HOUSES, WAREHOUSE AND STABLING
Statutory Address:: ISLINGTON MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE AND BOILER HOUSES, WAREHOUSE AND STABLING, JAMES STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386142
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: ISLINGTON MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE AND BOILER HOUSES, WAREHOUSE AND STABLING
Statutory Address 1:: ISLINGTON MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE AND BOILER HOUSES, WAREHOUSE AND STABLING, JAMES STREET

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:: ISLINGTON MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE AND BOILER HOUSES, WAREHOUSE AND STABLING, JAMES STREET

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District:: Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 82617 98353

Details

SALFORD

SJ8298SE JAMES STREET 949-1/23/119 (South side) 04/11/96 Islington Mill, including engine & boiler houses, warehouse & stabling

II

Cotton spinning mill, now used as retail and office premises. 1823. Originally built as a room and power mill by David Bellhouse of Manchester, with alterations and extensions to the site, used for doubling by the early C20. Spinning mill is brick with slate roof, fire-proof internal structure with cast-iron columns supporting transverse brick arches. Original structure comprised single central row of columns, but other rows were added following collapse in 1824. Timber queen-post roof construction. PLAN: site comprises main spinning mill, with external engine house and boiler house, a second mill and warehouse range, and office and stabling, enclosing a courtyard to the rear of the site. EXTERIOR: 6 storeys, 12 bays, with rectangular window in each bay, and semicircular windows in gable apexes lighting attic storey. Original internal engine house towards W end, marked by round-arched window, with stair and chimney tower originally located to W of it. The engine house was replaced by an external engine house in the yard, built or rebuilt late C19-early C20 (and subsequently extensively modified). Lift tower added to S elevation (possibly extending an original privy tower) in 1907-8, and stair tower at SE angle added in 1928. A second mill occupying the west part of the rear of the site was in existence by c1830, but was itself rebuilt c1901-2. 3-storeyed, brick, with cast-iron and timber internal structure. The eastern section of this second mill was added c1840, and survives substantially in original condition, with stair tower added to W. Taking-in doors suggest its use for warehousing. Small office building added c1880 to E of site entrance, a 2-storeyed, 4-window range, with single-storeyed wing to rear originally including stabling. HISTORICAL NOTE: the partial collapse of Islington Mill in 1824 is one of the well-documented structural failures of early fire-proof mills in which poor casting was blamed for the collapse. Listed as a good example of an early C19 fire-proof mill, which is of additional interest due to the alterations which were made following its collapse. The subsequent development of the site is also well-illustrative

of the adaptation and extension typical of early mills which continued in use as textile-working sites.

Listing NGR: SJ8261798353

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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.