Horrockses Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1996. Cotton spinning mill.
Horrockses Mill
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-niche-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden MP: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1996
- Type
- Cotton spinning mill
- Address
- Horrockses Mill, Lorne Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 731 067
- Coordinates
- 53.55691, -2.40726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horrockses Mill is a cotton spinning mill built in 1915 for Horrockses and Crewdson. It features a brick exterior with a concrete and steel internal structure, topped with slate roofs and powered by steam.
The front building is three storeys high and consists of eight by five bays, with windows grouped in threes between pilasters. The main block is five storeys tall and nearly square in shape, with paired windows between pilasters and towers at three corners. The towers are ribbed with pilasters and have curved corbelling at the upper stage, topped with embattled parapets. The southeast tower has a pyramidal roof. An engine house, which is three storeys and five by three bays, projects from the southwest corner of the main block and features corner pilasters similar to those on the mill towers. Behind the main structure is a tall single-storey warehouse with an east-light roof. Additionally, there is a two-storey range measuring eleven by four bays that projects from the northwest of the main block.
Horrockses and Crewdson merged in 1887, and it is noted that Crewdson’s detached late 19th-century weaving mill to the east of the site was demolished in 2008 without consent. This mill is an impressive example of 20th-century mill architecture, showcasing lavish embellishments and strong architectural forms that contribute to a distinct company identity.
Local climate
Horrockses Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% 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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