Description

SD 45 NE ELLEL CHURCH LANE

8/103 Galgate Silk Mills (east side of
2-5-1968 road)
[Formerly listed as Silk Mill
(East Block) under
General] ]

GV II

Silk mill, erected for John Armstrong in 1852, now converted into warehouse
units. Brick with ridge-and-furrow slate roof. 5 storeys, 9 bays, with
corners treated as pilasters with stone capitals. Windows have stone lintels
and small panes, the upper lights pivoting horizontally. Central bay has
loading doors, now partly blocked to form windows, on ground, 1st, and 3rd
floors. Main entrance in 1st bay, which is topped by a sprinkler tank.
Linked to the main building at the north is a 2-storey range of similar
appearance. Towards the rear, between the two parts of the building, is the
boiler house with a tapering brick chimney of square plan. Interior said to
have wooden floors on iron columns.

Listing NGR: SD4851655738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327065

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets