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Latitude: 53.565 / 53°33'54"N
Longitude: -2.111 / 2°6'39"W
OS Eastings: 392744
OS Northings: 407605
OS Grid: SD927076
Mapcode National: GBR FWP6.RS
Mapcode Global: WHB94.JNZC
Plus Code: 9C5VHV8Q+2H
Entry Name: Lion Mill
Listing Date: 4 November 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376630
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470636
ID on this website: 101376630
Location: Luzley Brook, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL2
County: Oldham
Electoral Ward/Division: Royton South
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Royton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Heyside St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Mill
ROYTON
SD90NW FITTON STREET
780-0/4/10011 Lion Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill, steam powered. 1890 by Wild, Collins and Wild, for King Spinning Company Ltd. Card shed extended 1891, and new warehouse added 1892. Cast-iron and steel-framed, brick-arched construction, brick cladding.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys, wide rectilinear planning of 23x10 bays between angles stressed by panelled pilasters each side of narrow stilted arched windows.
Main sprinkler and stair tower projects from NE elevation, dividing it into 2 unequal parts, probably corresponding to major internal structural division. Tower projects by 2 storeys above the roof line, and has Italianate detailing, with paired round-arched windows on each floor, white brick lettering and balustrated parapet Further, blind tower projects from SW angle.
Elevations otherwise undivided, each bay containing a tall, segmentally-arched window.
Loading area in NW elevation with cast-iron reinforcements to taking in doors in bays 1 and 2.
Power transmission to SW, with projecting engine house with 5 round-arched windows and a partial glazed lantern roof.
Boiler house does not survive, but chimney alongside engine house.
Detached office building adjacent to gate to SE,
single-storeyed, 5 bays with central door and round-arched
windows flanking it. Hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapet. , 2-storeyed warehouse of 10x2 bays faces the mill across a yard to the NW.
Included as a good example of mill building for its date, surviving almost intact with its separate warehouse.
(Gurr, Duncan and Hunt: The Cotton Mills of Oldham: Oldham: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SD8571302947
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