Bliss Tweed Mill Chipping Norton, England

Listed Building Data

Bliss Tweed 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1198094
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
3 July 1980
Name
BLISS TWEED MILL
Location
BLISS TWEED MILL
Parish
Chipping Norton
District
West Oxfordshire
County
Oxfordshire
Grid Reference
SP 30434 26696
Easting
430434.0000
Northing
226696.0000

Description

Tweed cloth mill; converted into apartments. 1872, as dated below clock on the circular chimney stack, by George Woodhouse, a Lancashire architect specialising in mill structures. Bliss Mill is an exceptional design, rivalling Lister Mills, Bradford and the earlier ones at Saltaire.

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

SP 3026-3126 CHIPPING NORTON

1169/4/90 Bliss Tweed Mill

3.7.1980 II*

Tweed cloth mill; converted into apartments. 1872, as dated below clock on the circular chimney stack, by George Woodhouse, a Lancashire architect specialising in mill structures. Bliss Mill is an exceptional design, rivalling Lister Mills, Bradford and the earlier ones at Saltaire. Built of local limestone, the elevations of the spinning mill proper, of 5 storeys, one treated in a manner that owes much to a Barry-type conception of the country house, with square belvedere staircase towers to the corners segmented by balustraded parapets with pairs of urn finials. The top storey windows have twin arcaded lights. The dominating feature is the chimney stack rising from an engaged circular tower, a sophisticated aesthetic solution to a functional requirement, with a ribbed leaded dome providing the transition to the lofty Tuscan order shaft of the stack proper. The multi-gabled weaving shed adjoins. The internal construction is of cast iron columns supporting transverse beams bearing the longitudinal segmental brick vaults which spring from slender I section girders. A remarkable opulent design in a park-like setting.

Listing NGR: SP3043426696