Former Moss Mill

PRESTON

SD5329 MOSS STREET (OFF FYLDE ROAD) 941-1/6/216 (West side) former Moss Mill

GV II

Cotton spinning mill, now various workshops, gymnasium, etc. c.1796, extended and altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone dressings, now mostly rendered; slate roof. Shallow rectangular plan facing south. 5 storeys, originally a 4:3:4 window range (but fenestration now altered and irregular), with pedimented centre breaking forwards. Raised rusticated quoins to the centre still exposed; ground floor has various inserted doorways, and left end now covered by C20 addition; 4 square windows on each of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors to the left, similar but very irregular regular fenestration to centre and right, all windows altered and some blocked. Rear: east portion and pedimented centre have square windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, some blocked or blind and others altered, more regular than front, the centre with 3 on each floor, plus a round-headed window in the centre of the top floor rising into the pediment; various large tie-plates, mostly quatrefoil shape. INTERIOR: not inspected but believed to have been altered. History: one of the first mills built by John Horrocks, being the principal element of a small industrial colony planted by him in this locality, and including a 3-storey block of handloom weavers' housing immediately opposite (demolished). Now the oldest surviving spinning mill in this town and, despite alterations, still recognisably in the pedimented Georgian form of the earliest textile mills.

Listing NGR: SD5331229966