The Cottonworks
The Cottonworks, Blackburn Road, BL1 7LS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387926
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottonworks
- Statutory Address:
- The Cottonworks, Blackburn Road, BL1 7LS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387926
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottonworks
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Cottonworks, Blackburn Road, BL1 7LS
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:
- The Cottonworks, Blackburn Road, BL1 7LS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71625 12251
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/01/2018
SD71SW
797-1/2/39
BOLTON
BLACKBURN ROAD (East side)
The Cottonworks
(Formerly listed as Astley Bridge Mill)
04/11/96
II
Former cotton spinning mill. 1927. By Bradshaw, Gass and Hope. For Sir John Holden. Brick, with steel and concrete internal structure and flat (concrete) roof.
EXTERIOR: five storeys and basement,14x6 bays with stressed angles (housing services), one with tower. Wide flat headed windows grouped in threes between pilasters with ornamented terracotta capitals. Cornice over fourth floor, and brick mullions to attic windows. Fretted parapet. Stair tower at north-west angle, with round arched windows with balconettes in upper storey, and domed copper roof. Two storey extension to card rooms (probably contemporary with building of main mill) runs along eastern elevation. Single storey extension (probably associated with electrical power system of mill) attached to north elevation. Short chimney of square section in centre of north elevation, serving heating boilers. South elevation divided by full-height pilasters with neo-Egyptian capitals.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the mill was built to use mains electricity as its power source, and was the last mill to be built in Bolton.
Listing NGR: SD7162512251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475920
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williams, M, Farnie, D A, Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester, (1992)
Longworth, J, The Cotton Mills of Bolton 1780 to 1985, (1987)
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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