Tulketh Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Cotton mill. 11 related planning applications.
Tulketh Mill
- WRENN ID
- kindled-lantern-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1991
- Type
- Cotton mill
- Address
- Tulketh Mill, Balcarres Road, PR2 2AA
- OS grid reference
- SD 523 309
- Coordinates
- 53.77237, -2.72421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tulketh Mill, now a mail-order warehouse and offices, was built in 1905. It is a very large rectangular building on a north-south axis, constructed with cast-iron columns, steel beams, and concrete floors. The external walls are clad in red brick, with accents of yellow brick, and the roof is currently under repair with a composition coating.
The main building is five storeys high, with a basement, and consists of four bays by twelve bays. It features pilasters between the bays, with panel detailing at the top stage, and a parapet with upstands over the pilasters. Large rectangular windows with 11 panes of glass fill each bay on every floor, with decorative yellow brick surrounds. The windows on the top floor have a continuous band of yellow brick. A tower is positioned between the sixth and ninth bays from the south end, and incorporates a two-stage structure above the main roof line, with a cornice separating the stages. The upper stage has three yellow bands, a keyed oculus, and large white brick lettering spelling "TULKETH" on each side, and a squat, red-tiled octagonal spire. A low toilet block projects from the west side of the tower.
Attached to the north side of the main range is a three-storey engine house, which is seven bays wide by three bays deep. The engine house has square windows, tall round-headed windows with keystones and radiating glazing bars, as well as keyed oculi on successive levels. A foundation stone, laid by the Mayoress Mrs Margerison in May 1905, is located at the base of the west tower.
The interior of the former engine house retains substantial remains of cream and green patterned glazed tiling. An office block, a single-storey flat-roofed range, is located south of the tower, featuring yellow bands, a raised pediment over a round-headed doorway, a canted bay window, and a parapet with a central panel lettered "OFFICES." A stair turret is at the north-west corner, with two windows on each floor, staggered vertically. A smaller extractor duct turret is situated at the south-east corner, featuring blind windows.
Local climate
Tulketh Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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