Brook Mill (Former No. 3 Twist Mill) Bolton, England
Listed Building Data
Brook Mill (Former No. 3 Twist Mill) has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1388079
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 25 July 1996
- Name
- BROOK MILL (FORMER NO. 3 TWIST MILL)
- Location
- BROOK MILL (FORMER NO. 3 TWIST MILL), THREADFOLD WAY
- Parish
- Non Civil Parish
- District
- Bolton
- Grid Reference
- SD 71761 13193
- Easting
- 371761.0000
- Northing
- 413193.0000
Listed Building Description
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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
