St Helena Mill
ST HELENA MILL, POOL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388237
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Helena Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ST HELENA MILL, POOL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388237
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- St Helena Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST HELENA MILL, POOL 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:
- ST HELENA MILL, POOL 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 71345 09373
Details
BOLTON
SD7109SW POOL STREET 797-1/16/180 (South side) 26/04/74 St Helena Mill (Formerly Listed as: POOL STREET St Helena Mill (oldest part only))
II
Cotton waste spinning mill. c1820, with 2 further mills now demolished added late C19-early C20. Disused since 1979. Of coursed and squared stone with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 11x3 bays, built at right angles to the River Croal which runs immediately to the rear of the building. Small rectangular windows on each floor with flat stone lintels, the lower openings modified when buildings (now demolished) were added against the east wall of the original building. Taking-in doors on each floor in centre of gable wall, and towards centre of east wall. Square section brick stack (reduced in height) projects from south-east corner, adjacent to internal engine house. INTERIOR: a single row of cast-iron columns carry timber beams internally. Queen strut roof to attic. HISTORY: the site was first developed with a water-powered mill c1780, replaced by the present building c1820 which was built for steam power. In use as a cotton waste spinning mill by c1830. (Greater Manchester Sites and Monuments Record; Williams M: Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester: London: 1993-).
Listing NGR: SD7134509373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476235
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williams, M, Farnie, D A, Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester, (1992)
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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