FORMER MOSS MILL

FORMER MOSS MILL, FYLDE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279803
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: FORMER MOSS MILL
Statutory Address:: FORMER MOSS MILL, FYLDE ROAD

The former Moss Mill, cotton spinning mill, viewed from UCLan Hanover Car Park. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279803
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: FORMER MOSS MILL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER MOSS MILL, FYLDE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: FORMER MOSS MILL, MOSS STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER MOSS MILL, FYLDE ROAD
Statutory Address:: FORMER MOSS MILL, MOSS STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 53312 29966

Details

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

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Legacy System number:: 392104
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.