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Latitude: 53.4851 / 53°29'6"N
Longitude: -2.2143 / 2°12'51"W
OS Eastings: 385874
OS Northings: 398734
OS Grid: SJ858987
Mapcode National: GBR DRF.6N
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.YNQL
Plus Code: 9C5VFQPP+37
Entry Name: Brunswick Mill
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197807
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387942
ID on this website: 101197807
Location: Miles Platting, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M40
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Bradford
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester Church of the Apostles
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Cotton mill Industrial archaeology site Textile factory
MANCHESTER
SJ8598 BRADFORD ROAD, Beswick And Clayton
698-1/17/529 (South East side)
Brunswick Mill
GV II
Cotton spinning mill, now various workshops and warehouses.
c.1840, with some later C19 alterations. Constructed by the
firm of David Bellhouse, but with possible involvement by
William Fairbairn (the mill is planned according to principals
which have been particularly associated with him). Brick with
slate roofs, fireproof internal construction, with cast iron
columns and beams, and transverse brick arches. Trussed
wrought iron tie rods added to strengthen structure when the
mill was converted to use the heavier ring spinning machinery
c1920. Built largely in a single phase to a courtyard plan,
with main spinning mill alongside canal, 2 wings for spinning
and ancillary processes including blowing and winding and a
front block housing main entrance, and use for warehousing and
offices. Main spinning mill is 7 storeys, and 28 bays with 2
rows of cast iron columns internally. Small rectangular
windows with flat arched heads in each bay. External engine
house (built to house 2 beam engines) at W of site. Advanced
wings are also 7 storeyed, each of 6 bays. Semi-circular
stair-cases in each wing, adjoining spinning mill. 4-storey,
20-window range *upper storey a later addition) to street
links the 2 wings and encloses the yard; central entrance in
wide segmental archway. 2-storey loading bays built in
internal angles in yard. The mill is thought to be the first
Greater Manchester mill to be converted to use mains
electricity as its principal power source, and later additions
include an electricity transformer house added in angle of W
wing and spinning mill (electric motor towers built on inner
face of main spinning block have been removed). A dust flue
was also added as a tower to the We of the W wing.
This was a large scale operation, a distinctive example of
site planning and built as a single phase around a courtyard.
Structurally and technologically conventional, but of interest
as an example of adaptation to suit changing technologies,
both in relation to power supply (the first mill in the region
to be converted to use mains electricity), and spinning
technology (the structure adapted to take ring spinning
machinery).
Listing NGR: SJ8587498734
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