Bridge Mill (Formerly Known As Old Mill Building)
BRIDGE MILL (FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLD MILL BUILDING), THREADFOLD WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388031
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Mill (Formerly Known As Old Mill Building)
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE MILL (FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLD MILL BUILDING), THREADFOLD WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388031
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Mill (Formerly Known As Old Mill Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE MILL (FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLD MILL BUILDING), THREADFOLD WAY
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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:
- BRIDGE MILL (FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLD MILL BUILDING), THREADFOLD WAY
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 71872 13097
Details
SD 71 SW,
797-1/2/83
BOLTON,
THREADFOLD WAY, Eagley (North side),
'Bridge Mill'
(formerly known as Old Mill Building)
26/04/74
GV
II
Probably originally a cotton mill, latterly used as canteen
for Eagley Mills complex, and as leather goods
works. Reported residential 07/2017. Largely late C18 with extensions dated 1926. Original
section is coursed and squared watershot stone work, with
hipped slate roof. Additions are brick with rock-faced stone
bands.
EXTERIOR: original building is 2 storey to south, 3 storey to
north, and 9x2 bays. Wide sash windows with small panes and
flat heads. Cast-iron external staircase attached to 3rd bay.
Single storey gabled projection against west wall at one time
a boiler house. No other traces of power system, and original
use unclear. Extension is also 2-3 storey, 3 bays, with
entrance and staircase giving access to working floors.
Central pediment to parapet over entrance.
INTERIOR: original construction appears to be unsupported
lateral timber beams, replaced or strengthened on lower
storeys by steel joists carried on cast-iron columns.
HISTORY: documentary evidence suggests that there was a mill
on the Eagley Mills site by 1816. In 1820, James and Robert
Chadwick established a tape-weaving business on the site, also
making sewing cotton, cards and laces. The original building
would by then have been a small component in a much larger
industrial site, reflected in its more recent use as a
canteen.
Listing NGR: SD7187213097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476029
- 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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