Trafford Mill

SJ 47 SE MICKLE TRAFFORD C.P. WARRINGTON ROAD (South Side)

3/27 Trafford Mill

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Water-powered corn mill: c.1830 on earlier foundations with later C19 extensions, all for the Earls of Shrewsbury. Irregular bond orange brick, Welsh slate roof and I brick chimney. Long L-shaped plan. 2-storey 12 -bay west front. Dentil brick cornice. Left end bay has stone wheelpit with 2 segmental brick arches on a stone pier and the 7th bay is another wheelpit with a single segmental arch. The bays between have small-pane windows under weak segmental heads and on door and another door into an added gable porch. The remainder is an addition of a driftway, a large cartshed and a shippon at right angles. Cartshed and driftway have heavy wooden lintels, and the remainder similar but larger openings than to the original part. Interior: being restored as a working museum. North wheelpit has unusual cast-iron single-spoke wheel connected to flour sifting machinery dated 1883. South wheelpit has restored low breast wheel and complete train of machinery driving 3 pairs of stones (in use until 1952). Ground floor is quarry tiled and has corner cast-iron fireplace. For history see G.Coppack "A Country Mill, the history of Trafford Mill" unpublished thesis, Keele University, 1980.

Listing NGR: SJ4501370834