Description

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SD 61 SE
4/19

HORWICH
Mill View Road
Nos 20, 22-24 and 34-38, Building at Former Arcon Engineering approximately 40 metres north east of Wallsuches House

(Formerly listed as Building at Arcon Engineering approximately 40 metres north east of Wallsuches House (q.v.) CHORLEY OLD ROAD)

GV
II
Former factory building. Late C18. For Wallsuches Bleach Works. Dressed stone with quoins and slate roof. Two storeys, seven bays, the sixth and seventh bays project and are roofless (when surveyed). Windows have narrow lintels and casements, those to first floor with small panes, one ground-floor window is blocked. Large round-headed archways to second and sixth/seventh bays. Octagonal-faced clock in gabled dormer between second and third bays.

Wallsuches Bleach Works, founded 1775, was one of the first chemical bleach works in the country. A rare and early example of a bleach works building.

Listing NGR: SD6531111830

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455780

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)