Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 REDHILL STREET, Ancoats
698-1/17/462 (North West side)
11/11/88 Royal Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
HENRY STREET, Ancoats
(North East side)
Royal Mill)

GV II*

Cotton spinning mill, now clothing works. Dated 1912, and
built to use mains electricity. Red brick with terracotta and
stone dressings, with cast iron, steel and concrete internal
structure. Distinctive baroque detailing. 6 storeys, 10x3
bays, with external stair-tower at NW corner, surmounted by
dome, with electric motors housed in towers projecting from E
wall. 7 storey entrance block to Redhill Street elevation,
built over courtyard entrance and linking Royal Mill with the
earlier Sedgwick Mills (qv). This has large segmental archway
with cast iron surround. Office to right of entrance, with
segmental doorway. Narrow advanced privy turret to left of
entrance, with pairs of narrow windows to all floors, and
cornice and segmental pedimented parapet. Water tower set back
behind entrance block. Wide segmentally arched windows in each
bay of main body of mill, which is enriched with banded and
panelled corner pilasters, and heavy stone band above 3rd
floor windows.
The mill forms part of the McConnell Kennedy works, together
with the earlier Sedgwick Mills and Paragaon Mill (qv). A
further mill (Long Mill) is no longer extant. A stone over the
entrance records that the mill replaced an earlier building on
the site, originally built in 1797.
Included as an early example of a mill designed to use mains
electricity from the outset, which forms an important part of
the McConnell Kennedy works.

Listing NGR: SJ8497598526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Royal Mill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7374490

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)