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Latitude: 53.6141 / 53°36'50"N
Longitude: -2.4266 / 2°25'35"W
OS Eastings: 371872
OS Northings: 413148
OS Grid: SD718131
Mapcode National: GBR CVHN.F5
Mapcode Global: WH97N.PFN6
Plus Code: 9C5VJH7F+J8
Entry Name: Brook Mill (Former No. 3 Twist Mill)
Listing Date: 25 July 1996
Last Amended: 19 March 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1388079
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476077
ID on this website: 101388079
Location: Eagley, Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL7
County: Bolton
Electoral Ward/Division: Bromley Cross
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bolton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Astley Bridge St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Mill building
BOLTON
SD71SW THREADFOLD WAY, Eagley
797-1/2/249 "Brook Mill" (Former
25/07/96 No.3 Twist Mill)
GV II
Cotton twist mill originally forming part of a large cotton
works, and now in multiple industrial use. Dated 1887. Brick
with rusticated stone basement end bands. Multi-ridge slate
roof. Cast-iron, steel and concrete internal structure.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys, 14x6 bays. Stair tower recessed in centre
of return wall, with off-set gabled porch and pedimented
terracotta parapet to tower, with clock. Flat heads to windows
of lower storeys, segmentally arched above, all recessed
between pilasters. Cornice over 3rd storey. Loading bay to
left in long north elevation, dated 1887. Engine house
projects from NW angle (apparently 2 engine houses forming an
L-shaped projection), and the boiler house adjoins this to the
west.
HISTORY: built as a twist mill in 1871 but rebult in 1887.
Used mainly for finishing and winding until 1903, and then
carrying out twisting and winding, transferred from the 1881
mill. Beyond the mill to the west, a 2-storeyed brick building
may have been a warehouse or workshop originally. The mill is
part of an important textile-working site established by the
Chadwicks after 1820 on a previously developed site, which
included at its height 5 mills and a bleaching and dyeing
works, together with an associated planned community. The
mills were devoted to smallwear weaving, sewing-cotton
manufacture, twist bleaching and dyeing. The twist mill
employs a distinctive architectural vocabulary and forms part
of a strong visual grouping of mills on this prominent valley
location.
Listing NGR: SD7187213148
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