Brook Mill (Former No. 3 Twist Mill)
BROOK MILL (FORMER NO. 3 TWIST MILL), THREADFOLD WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388079
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Mill (Former No. 3 Twist Mill)
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK MILL (FORMER NO. 3 TWIST MILL), THREADFOLD WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388079
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1996
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Mill (Former No. 3 Twist Mill)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK MILL (FORMER NO. 3 TWIST MILL), THREADFOLD WAY
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:
- BROOK MILL (FORMER NO. 3 TWIST MILL), 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:
- SD7187213148
Details
BOLTON
SD71SW THREADFOLD WAY, Eagley
797-1/2/249 "Brook Mill" (Former
25/07/96 No.3 Twist Mill)
GV II
Cotton twist mill originally forming part of a large cotton
works, and now in multiple industrial use. Dated 1887. Brick
with rusticated stone basement end bands. Multi-ridge slate
roof. Cast-iron, steel and concrete internal structure.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys, 14x6 bays. Stair tower recessed in centre
of return wall, with off-set gabled porch and pedimented
terracotta parapet to tower, with clock. Flat heads to windows
of lower storeys, segmentally arched above, all recessed
between pilasters. Cornice over 3rd storey. Loading bay to
left in long north elevation, dated 1887. Engine house
projects from NW angle (apparently 2 engine houses forming an
L-shaped projection), and the boiler house adjoins this to the
west.
HISTORY: built as a twist mill in 1871 but rebult in 1887.
Used mainly for finishing and winding until 1903, and then
carrying out twisting and winding, transferred from the 1881
mill. Beyond the mill to the west, a 2-storeyed brick building
may have been a warehouse or workshop originally. The mill is
part of an important textile-working site established by the
Chadwicks after 1820 on a previously developed site, which
included at its height 5 mills and a bleaching and dyeing
works, together with an associated planned community. The
mills were devoted to smallwear weaving, sewing-cotton
manufacture, twist bleaching and dyeing. The twist mill
employs a distinctive architectural vocabulary and forms part
of a strong visual grouping of mills on this prominent valley
location.
Listing NGR: SD7187213148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476077
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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