Description

1.
5336 BROUGHTON ROAD

SD 9851 1/163 (North side)

II Western Block of Dewhirst's Mill

The address and the map reference shall be amended to read:

SD 95 SE BROUGHTON ROAD
SP/194 (North side)

Dewhurst's Mill
The description shall be amended to read:

Mill for the spinning and weaving of cotton and the manufacture of sewing thread.
1867-70. Coursed stone with rusticated quoins, hipped slate and glazed skylight
roofs on bracketed eaves. Massive grouping of main rectangular western block with
detached brick chimney to rear, U-shaped eastern range linked to third mill with
canted west end across Brewery Lane by inclined cast iron bridges with enriched
round-headed glazing. Main block 20x8 bays, 5 storeys glazed with 4-pane casement
windows in plain square frames. Dentilled string courses at sill levels of 1st and
3rd storeys. Main entrance to east has rusticated pyramid capped gate piers.
shaped eastern range has 5 storey 5-bay gable ends facing Broughton Road with 3
round-headed windows in gable apex; 10x15 bay elevations to courtyard of 5 storeys
with later asymmetrical additions. 3rd mill to east of Brewery Lane of 4 storeys,
7 bays and water tower in north west corner with bracketed cornice. North-east
water tower to western block has hipped roof and iron belvedere with bracketed
cornice. The whole complex forms a group.

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1.
5336 BROUGHTON ROAD
(North Side)

Western block of
Dewhirst's Mill
SD 9851 1/163

II

2.
Late Victorian. Stone, rusticated quoins, hipped slate roof, eaves on brackets.
5 storeys. Long western block has 20 windows on each floor facing the road, and
6 windows on return end. Dentilled strings at sill level of 1st and 3rd floors.

Listing NGR: SD9852651511

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26475097

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)