Alma Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1994. Silk weaving mill. 5 related planning applications.
Alma Mill
- WRENN ID
- under-casement-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1994
- Type
- Silk weaving mill
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9173NW CROMPTON ROAD 886-1/9/73 (East side) Alma Mill
GV II
Silk weaving mill. c1823, with early C20 additions. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and basement, 8x3 bays. Gable faces street with stepped coping and flat roofed continuation to right over loading bays. Doorway in roll moulded architrave to ground floor, loading doors with hoist above entrance. 3 windows in the gable, and a single light in the apex. Transomed windows with flat-arched brick heads. Privy tower a small angled projection from rear gable. INTERIOR: internal structure comprises cast-iron columns carrying timber beams. Stairs immediately behind loading area adjacent to entrance. To the right of the gable facing the street, an office building. Early C20, single-storeyed with doorway to left and 2 windows. The mill was originally built for hand finishing or hand processing of silk, but an engine house (which no longer survives intact) was added to the mill by 1871. (Fricker, Calladine et al: Macclesfield Mills Survey).
Listing NGR: SJ9107673574
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