Warwick Mill Including Adjoining Railings

MIDDLETON OLDHAM ROAD SD 80 NE (south side) 2/18 Warwick Mill including adjoining railings (formerly listed 22/8/79 as Warwick Mill) - II Cotton mill. 1907. By G. Stott of J. Stott and Sons. Red brick with internal cast-iron frame. Total of 40 x 14 bays with 5 storeys (and basement) arid an engine-house attached at rear. Continuous sill band to first and fourth floor, machicolated eaves frieze and stepped brick detail above fourth floor windows. Other windows are set between plain brick pilasters; all frames have been replaced. The water- tower rises 2 stages above the stone-coped parapet having 3 windows with tripartite keystones which are keyed into a stone band, the name of the mill in white glazed tiles on the upper stage, an eaves cornice, and a brick parapet in front of a steep pyramidal roof with iron crowning. It is balanced at the other corners by brick pilasters and a pierced parapet rising above a stone cornice. The 4 x l-bay engine-house has semi-circular-arched stone-dressed openings with archivolt and tripartite keystones as well as stone bands, corner pilasters and a coped parapet above a stone cornice. The engine has been removed but glazed wall tiling remains. The internal structure uses a twin jack-arch system on cylindrical cast-iron columns. The front railings incorporate Art Nouveau motifs.

Listing NGR: SD8711205675