Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9172 LONDON ROAD
886-1/8/118 (East side)
15/10/87 Byrons Mill

GV II

Silk mill. c1850-60. Red brick on rubble stone basement and
ground floor, with stone and brick dressings and slate roof. 4
storeys on basement, 15 bays, the central 5 bays advanced.
Giant pilasters topped by stone finials mark the angles and
define the central section. Fenestration varies, but all
windows have moulded bricks in segmentally-arched heads.
Entrance in gable end, and loading doors inserted towards
centre on 2nd and 3rd floors. 2 towers project from the rear
elevation, housing the stairs. Against the central tower, is a
lean-to engine house, containing remains of engine, the fly
wheel and the fluted cast-iron columns carrying the beam
remain in situ.
INTERIOR: internal structure comprises a single row of
cast-iron columns carrying timber beams on each floor.

Listing NGR: SJ9198872412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502111

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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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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)