Former Corn Mill Buildings (Attached To Houses Known As Portland Place)

STALYBRIDGE MOTTRAM ROAD SJ 99 NE 1033-/4/10001 Former Corn Mill Buildings (attached to houses known as Portland Place) GV II

Warehouse, office and gateway to Stalybridge Corn Mill. Early C19 (marked on map of 1840). Coursed rubble, some stone slab roofs. The site is entered from Mottram Road (Portland Place) through a depressed arch (voussoirs, keystones and moulded imposts), attached to No 22 Portland Place (to right,q.v.), with one window bay to left (2 storeys,both windows with wedge lintel, later glazing), all under coped parapet. Within yard, to left, the office (a canted 2-window range, the doorway with moulded cornice) and attached warehouse, 4 storeys, 3:3:1 window bays, some pedimented ( to corner cross gables), regular fenestration with tooled sills and lintels only, taking in openings to bay 5, and 2 large ground-floor round-headed rusticated openings for vehicles. The office and warehouse form an irregular wedge-shaped plan, the rear wall with hardly any openings but with a central pediment. The end wall (N), 4 window range, that to the left comprising taking-in doors with lucarne. Ground floor windows blocked.

Listing NGR: SJ9701097992