Description

WIGAN

SD50NE POTTERY ROAD
24-1/2/57 (South side)
14/05/97 Trencherfield Mill

GV II

Cotton spinning mill, now textile workshop, warehouse, museum,
offices etc. 1907-8, by Potts, Son and Hennings, for William
Woods & Son Ltd.; altered. Iron and steel frame with cladding
of red brick in English garden wall bond with dressings of
buff terracotta (roof concealed but probably asphalt). Very
large main range with tower at north-east corner, engine house
attached at right angles near south end of east side with
boiler house in south angle of this (and C20 tourist shop
attached to north side). Simplified Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and approximately 15 bays, 2 windows per
bay, with brick pilasters, the top floor featured with a
sillband, terracotta enrichment to the pilasters, 3-light
windows with blocked colonnette mullions, and parapet
upstands. Rectangular corner tower with various windows
including keyed oculi, and a 3-stage turret with a cornice to
the 1st stage, terracotta panels to the 2nd stage lettered
"1907" with open pediments above, and a square top stage,
banded, with a 3-light window in each side and a steep
pyramidal roof. 3-storey 8-window engine house with
round-headed windows at 1st floor level and oculi at 2nd floor
level, all keyed, in east end a very large lunette with 3
similar oculi above, and hipped roof.
INTERIOR: original 1906 4-cylinder triple-expansion tandem
steam engine by J & E Woods of Bolton, in working order.

Listing NGR: SD5783105132

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Trencherfield Mill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7838250

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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