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Former Warehouse and Offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill

A Grade II Listed Building in Ancoats and Clayton, Manchester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4839 / 53°29'2"N

Longitude: -2.227 / 2°13'37"W

OS Eastings: 385033

OS Northings: 398601

OS Grid: SJ850986

Mapcode National: GBR DNG.G3

Mapcode Global: WHB9G.RPQJ

Plus Code: 9C5VFQMF+H6

Entry Name: Former Warehouse and Offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill

Listing Date: 28 February 1975

Last Amended: 6 June 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1220282

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388341

ID on this website: 101220282

Location: Ancoats, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M4

County: Manchester

Electoral Ward/Division: Ancoats and Clayton

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

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Description


MANCHESTER

SJ8598 MURRAY STREET, Ancoats 698-1/17/456 (East side) 28/02/75 Former Warehouse and Offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill (Formerly Listed as: JERSEY STREET, Ancoats (East side) Former Cotton Mill of Adam Murray)

GV II

Office and warehouse range serving adjacent cotton spinning mills. c1806. Brick with slate roof. Originally a 4-storeyed building symmetrically planned with 10-window ranges each side of central entrance, but the left hand range which extended to New Mill (qv) has been reduced in height to 2 storeys. Right hand range survives as 4 storeys. Central entrance formed main access to courtyard/canal basin for Old Mill, Decker Mill and New Mill (qv). Stone voussoir arch, with tripartite windows in upper storeys above. Other windows renewed in original openings with cambered brick heads. In rear elevation, oriel window of office to S of entrance arch. The building formed part of Adam and George Murray's textile works, established on this site in 1798 and expanded to form a courtyard in which 3 spinning mills were linked by warehouse and office blocks around a courtyard and canal basin. Included as an important component of this textile working site, and representing an early example of a specifically industrial architecture.

Listing NGR: SJ8503398601

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