Description

SADDLEWORTH DELPH
SD 9807
7/76 Shore Mill
-
- II*
Water-powered carding mill. Early 1780s. Hammer-dressed
stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3 storeys with a
centrally-placed undershot waterwheel. 2 blocked doors (now
windows) and a later doorway on either side of two 2-light
windows (formerly of a longer row). 12-light windows to
first and second floors, every third mullion being a king
mullion. All windows have flat-faced recessed stone
mullions. Gable stack and taking-in doors to gables. The
rear retains a blocked arched mill leat opening, 4 and 3-
light ground floor windows, two 5-light first floor windows
and a 12-light second floor window. Interior: reconstructed
water-wheel replacing the original overshot wheel. Timber
beam single-span floors use an interesting pre-stressing
mechanism: wrought-iron tie-rods are employed (of late C19)
to sustain increase loading on the beams. Originally used
for the willeying process in the woollen industry. A rare
survival of an early water-powered mill built for the
factory system of manufacture but still using a
vernacular/domestic vocabulary of architecture. Bulletin of
the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.9. No.4, 1979, p.81.

Listing NGR: SD9860207943

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547879

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)