Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 REDHILL STREET, Ancoats
698-1/17/461 (North West side)
20/06/88 Old Mill and Decker Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
REDHILL STREET, Ancoats
(North West side)
Murray's Mill)

GV II*

Cotton spinning mills, now clothing factory. Old Mill (to the
W) built in 1798, with Decker Mill added to the E in 1802.
Brown brick with slate roofs; internal structure of cast iron
columns and timber beams. The 2 mills form a continuous range
parallel to the canal; both now 7 storeys (although 8 storeys
when built), the original 11 bays of Old Mill extended by the
10 bay Decker Mill. Small windows with flat arched brick
heads. Stair tower serving both mills towards centre of rear
elevation, and 2 narrow heating or ventilation towers against
this rear wall. Detached engine house in the yeard beyond (a
mid C19 replacement), and octagonal stack with moulded cap
adjacent to it. Internal structure has been modified, but it
is likely that the original design incorporated joisted floors
carried on cruciform cast iron columns (as surviving in part
of New Mill, qv). Truncated remains of wing to Bengal Street
elevation was formerly a 4-storeyed range used for
warehousing, and had been added to the site by 1906.
History: built for Adam and George Murray, as the earliest
part of what became a large textile working site. The mills
were originally provided with their own canal basin in the
yard to the rear, which was linked to the Rochdale Canal by an
arched tunnel under the street. Fairbairn and Lillie's first
major contract was for the renewal of the machine shafting in
this mill.
Together with New Mill to the rear, these mills are highly
significant as a large early textile working site, developed
as a single concern around a courtyard/canal basin. Old Mill
is also the earliest surviving mill in Manchester.

Listing NGR: SJ8507298584

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q106938083

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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