Spectator Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Mill. 4 related planning applications.

Spectator Mill

WRENN ID: worn-hall-rush
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Manchester
Country: England
Date first listed: 6 June 1994
Type: Mill
Source: Historic England listing

Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8598 SPECTATOR STREET 698-1/17/543 (North West side) Beswick And Clayton Spectator Mill

GV II

Silk mill, now various workshops. Early to mid C19; altered. Brown brick (now rendered at ground floor) with some sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan with projecting stair-turret at south-east corner and projecting tower (dust flue?) near west end. Six storeys and 7 windows, with tower between 2nd and 3rd; round-headed doorway in re-entrant wall of stair-turret, otherwise most ground-floor openings altered; segmental-headed windows with raised sills; narrow rectangular full-height tower between 2nd and 3rd windows, with diamond-pattern breathers (as found in agricultural buildings) on 4 levels. Interior not inspected. Forms part of impressive and evocative group of former mill buildings lining Ashton Canal in this locality.

Listing NGR: SJ8576098563

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