Copley Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1966. Cotton mill. 8 related planning applications.
Copley Mills
- WRENN ID
- lunar-facade-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1966
- Type
- Cotton mill
- Address
- Copley Mills, Huddersfield Road, SK15 3DN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 972 987
- Coordinates
- 53.48586, -2.04268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Copley Mills is a cotton mill built in the second quarter of the 19th century, with an engine house added in 1871. It is constructed from watershot stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The mill has a fire-proof floor construction supported by cylindrical cast iron columns. It measures 45 by 11 bays and stands four to five storeys tall, with an engine house and chimney located to the southwest and an office wing to the northeast. Each bay contains a 20th-century casement window on every floor, featuring plain stone lintels and sills. The original hipped roof has been partly replaced by a later flat roof. The engine house includes a dated timber pediment on console brackets above a large doorway, while the side windows are round-headed with keystones. The northeast and northwest sides have large blocked elliptical-arched carriageways, and there is a stone inscribed "COPLEY MILLS." The octagonal tapering chimney shaft, likely from 1871, is also a notable feature. The mill was associated with James Wilkinson, a cotton spinner, from at least 1832.
Local climate
Copley Mills sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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