Croal Mill
CROAL MILL, BLACKSHAW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387930
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Croal Mill
- Statutory Address:
- CROAL MILL, BLACKSHAW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387930
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Croal Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROAL MILL, BLACKSHAW LANE
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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:
- CROAL MILL, BLACKSHAW LANE
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 70118 08551
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/08/2012
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04/11/96
BOLTON
BLACKSHAW LANE
(West side)
Croal Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill. 1908. By Bradshaw and Gass. For the Croal Spinning Company Limited. Closed as cotton mill in 1967 and now used as warehouse by mail order company. Site comprises spinning mill, with engine house projecting at one angle with rope race alongside; boundary wall with ancillary buildings against its inner face, gate lodge/office building.
EXTERIOR: spinning mill is red brick with flat concrete roof and concrete, steel and cast-iron internal structure. 6 storeys, 10x5 bays, with wide windows between narrow brick pilasters, the brickwork corbelled out above the fifth floor. Stair tower projects from north-east angle; Byzantine detail, with banded buff brick angle pilasters and terracotta dressings, stepped and with volutes at upper stage, and stepped windows in groups of 3. Segmentally arched and oriel upper windows, and shallow dome with volutes at angles. Engine house projects from south-east angle with 3 round arched windows; boiler house alongside to south. Blind segmentally arched panels to adjacent rope-race. Single storey entrance lodge/office building, with plain tiled roof and buff brick banding and terracotta dressings. Central pedimented gable over entrance.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Wall to eastern boundary forms screen to ancillary buildingswithin the yard, and is divided into panels by pilaster buttresses. A striking detailed early C20 mill, by a notable specialist architectural practice, which survives almost intact, and which shows how the manufacturing processes were separated on different storeys of the building. (Williams M: Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester: London: 1992-; Longworth J: The Cotton Mills of Bolton: Bolton: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SD7011808551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475924
- 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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