Description

PRESTON

SD5329 MOSS STREET (OFF FYLDE ROAD)
941-1/6/216 (West side)
former Moss Mill

GV II

Cotton spinning mill, now various workshops, gymnasium, etc.
c.1796, extended and altered. Red brick in English garden wall
bond with sandstone dressings, now mostly rendered; slate
roof. Shallow rectangular plan facing south. 5 storeys,
originally a 4:3:4 window range (but fenestration now altered
and irregular), with pedimented centre breaking forwards.
Raised rusticated quoins to the centre still exposed; ground
floor has various inserted doorways, and left end now covered
by C20 addition; 4 square windows on each of the 2nd, 3rd, and
4th floors to the left, similar but very irregular regular
fenestration to centre and right, all windows altered and some
blocked. Rear: east portion and pedimented centre have square
windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, some blocked or
blind and others altered, more regular than front, the centre
with 3 on each floor, plus a round-headed window in the centre
of the top floor rising into the pediment; various large
tie-plates, mostly quatrefoil shape.
INTERIOR: not inspected but believed to have been altered.
History: one of the first mills built by John Horrocks, being
the principal element of a small industrial colony planted by
him in this locality, and including a 3-storey block of
handloom weavers' housing immediately opposite (demolished).
Now the oldest surviving spinning mill in this town and,
despite alterations, still recognisably in the pedimented
Georgian form of the earliest textile mills.

Listing NGR: SD5331229966

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568994

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