Little Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Industrial. 6 related planning applications.

Little Mill

WRENN ID
lone-lead-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1994
Type
Industrial
Address
Little Mill, Jersey Street, M4 6JG
OS grid reference
SJ 850 986
Coordinates
53.48452, -2.22608
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Mill is a cotton spinning mill located in Ancoats, Manchester. It was built in 1908 to utilize mains electricity as its primary power source, replacing an earlier mill from around 1820. The structure is made of brick, with an internal framework of cast iron, steel, and concrete. It stands five storeys tall and features ten bays by four bays, with an entrance, stair, and privy tower that projects at the northwest corner, along with a tower for electric motors extending towards the northeast. The mill has wide segmentally arched windows, with three windows per bay along the length, and includes simplified detailing such as a cornice above the fourth storey and panelled angle pilasters on the tower, which is topped with a swept segmental parapet. Little Mill is a significant part of Murray's Mills and is notable for being the earliest mill in Greater Manchester designed to use mains electricity.

Local climate

Little Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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