Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9073 CHESTER ROAD
886-1/6/41 (South side)
14/04/49 Regency Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
CHESTER ROAD
(South side)
Chester Road Mills)

GV II

Former silk mill, now joinery works and previously a card
factory. c1820. Brick with Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: main block with ancillary buildings including engine
house and weaving sheds to rear. Weaving sheds comprise 5
parallel north lit ranges, built against curtain wall to
Oxford Road. Brick with hipped stone-flagged roof. L-plan main
block with short 2-bay wing to rear.
EXTERIOR: main elevation of 17 bays (6-5-6) with advanced and
pedimented central section. 4 storeys and basement. All
windows have flat-arched gauged brick heads and 36-pane sashes
(some 4-pane sashes and transomed windows to ground floor).
Former main doorway disused in bay 3: Doric case, 6-panelled
door with radial fan (building now entered from doorway in the
curtain wall to Oxford Road). Clock in apex of pediment, and
bell cupola to roof. Heavy moulded stone cornice.
External stair tower to rear right with privy tower adjoining,
and a second stair tower projecting in inner angle of main
range and rear wing to left. Square section stack (apparently
connected to former detached engine house by horizontal
underground flue) breaks through cornice to rear left.
INTERIOR: single span with timber beams and queen post roof
structure with collar and bracing. Lower floors have
supplementary steel columns and supports introduced more
recently. Cast-iron columns support roof structure of weaving
sheds, forming a continuous working area.
The mill is an interesting example of an integrated site which
included silk manufacture and throwing, weaving and dyeing.

Listing NGR: SJ9091673621

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502091

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)