Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8297 EGERTON STREET
698-1/18/123 (East side)
09/11/92 Former Canal Flour Mills

GV II

Flour mills, now warehouses, etc, and partly unoccupied at
time of survey. 1896, by William Waddington. Red brick (part
now painted), 4-span slate roof. Irregular plan within a
square, on structural axis parallel to Egerton Street, with
north end to Bridgewater Canal and integral canal basin
entered through shipping hole. Utilitarian style with
Italianate features. Four storeys over basement, plus a tower
and campanile-style chimney; with pilastered facades of 6
unequal bays to Egerton Street and 4 unequal gables at the
south end. Each bay has a Lombard frieze, the first 5 to
Egerton Street with pairs of windows and the 6th bay with 3
windows, mostly segmental-headed except for a single
round-headed opening from ground to 1st floor of the 1st bay
and all those at top floor which are square-headed and
shorter; all basement openings and most ground floor windows
now blocked. South return wall has a wide 3-bay gable with
central flat, then a 2-bay gable, and two single-bay gables,
all completely altered at ground floor but otherwise with
fenestration like that at the front except the top floor which
has stepped round-headed windows. The north end has (inter
alia) a large shipping hole; and a square sprinkler tower with
narrow 2-bay sides which have round-headed lancets and corbel
tables, a machicolated parapet (enclosing the water tank), and
a square chimney at the north east corner in similar style.
Interior (as reported by GMAU 1989): intact loading and
unloading facilities for canal boats; timber floors supported
by steel beams and cast-iron columns; disused pump in basement
for artesian well. Included as unusually complete example of
flour mill related to canal.

Listing NGR: SJ8286797461

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496620

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)