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
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1994
Type
Silk weaving mill
Address
Alma Mill, Crompton Road, Macclesfield, SK11 8DS
OS grid reference
SJ 910 735
Coordinates
53.25913, -2.13514
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alma Mill is a silk weaving mill built around 1823, with early 20th-century additions. It is constructed of brick and has a Welsh slate roof. The building has three storeys and a basement, arranged in eight by three bays. The gable faces the street and features stepped coping, with a flat-roofed extension to the right over the loading bays. There is a doorway with a roll moulded architrave on the ground floor, and loading doors with a hoist above the entrance. The gable has three windows and a single light in the apex, with transomed windows that have flat-arched brick heads. At the rear gable, there is a small angled projection known as a privy tower.

Inside, the structure includes cast-iron columns that support timber beams. There is a staircase located immediately behind the loading area next to the entrance. To the right of the street-facing gable, there is an early 20th-century office building that is single-storeyed, featuring a doorway to the left and two windows. Originally, the mill was designed for hand finishing or processing of silk, but an engine house, which no longer exists, was added by 1871.

Local climate

Alma Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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