Falcon Mill
FALCON MILL, HANDEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388065
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Falcon Mill
- Statutory Address:
- FALCON MILL, HANDEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388065
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Falcon Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- FALCON MILL, HANDEL STREET
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:
- FALCON MILL, HANDEL STREET
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 70680 11073
Details
BOLTON
SD7011SE HANDEL STREET 797-1/10/118 (East side) 24/04/74 Falcon Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill. 1903, built by G Temperly for Falcon Mill Ltd. Brick with yellow brick bands. Flat roof and internal concrete and steel construction. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: 6 storey, 9x8 bays, with tower in south-west corner. 3 large flat-headed windows in each bay (2 windows in shorter north elevation), with yellow and blue brick lintels, and stone sills. Tower has terracotta dressings and steep pavilion roof behind parapet. Canopy over modified loading bay in south elevation, with added lift tower. Projecting block at south-east corner may possibly incorporate remains of original engine house and boiler house, but is largely later C20. Privy tower projects from north-east angle, and there is a 2-storey card room extension along the eastern side of the mill. Chimney offset to south-east of site. Heavily modified entrance lodge adjoining site entrance to west. INTERIOR: not inspected. Reputed to be one of the first mills to be equipped with concrete filler joist floors, but the internal structure has been modified. (Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit: Greater Manchester Sites and Monuments Record; Longworth J: The Cotton Mills of Bolton: Bolton: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SD7068011073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476063
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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