Chatham Mill

MANCHESTER

SJ8397 CHESTER STREET 698-1/19/61 (South side) 11/03/88 Chatham Mill

GV II

Cotton spinning mill, now used as warehousing etc. 1820, with extension of 1823 along Lower Ormand Street. Brick with slate roof, which has clerestory windows. Original block is 6-storeyed, 17 bays, with site of internal engine house against gable wall to SW (round-arched opening partially blocked and cut by C20 loading bay), with remains of chimney aligned with this to NW. Taking-in doors to all floors towards centre of rear elevation, reinforced with cast iron. Entrance leading to staircase in rusticated arch in NE corner, within archway to courtyard formed after extension of mill. Small rectangular windows with cambered brickheads in each bay. 4-storeyed 12 bay wing to Lower Ormand Street, with courtyard entry to left, and central doorway. Interior construction has timber floors carried on cast iron columns in original range, and fireproof construction to 1823 wing, in which cast iron columns and beams carry transverse brick arches. Layout of mill, including position of taking-in doors suggests possible origins as room and power mill. Included as a typical and coherent example of an early C19 mill, in which a single range has been extended to form an L-plan, itself a typical pattern of growth.

Listing NGR: SJ8406897289