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Alma Mill

A Grade II Listed Building in Macclesfield, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2591 / 53°15'32"N

Longitude: -2.1351 / 2°8'6"W

OS Eastings: 391082

OS Northings: 373576

OS Grid: SJ910735

Mapcode National: GBR FZJR.KD

Mapcode Global: WHBBP.5BJV

Plus Code: 9C5V7V57+JW

Entry Name: Alma Mill

Listing Date: 28 October 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1291799

English Heritage Legacy ID: 390973

ID on this website: 101291799

Location: Macclesfield, Cheshire East, Cheshire, SK11

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Macclesfield

Built-Up Area: Macclesfield

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: All Saints Macclesfield

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description



MACCLESFIELD

SJ9173NW CROMPTON ROAD
886-1/9/73 (East side)
Alma Mill

GV II

Silk weaving mill. c1823, with early C20 additions. Brick with
Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and basement, 8x3 bays. Gable
faces street with stepped coping and flat roofed continuation
to right over loading bays. Doorway in roll moulded architrave
to ground floor, loading doors with hoist above entrance. 3
windows in the gable, and a single light in the apex.
Transomed windows with flat-arched brick heads. Privy tower a
small angled projection from rear gable.
INTERIOR: internal structure comprises cast-iron columns
carrying timber beams. Stairs immediately behind loading area
adjacent to entrance.
To the right of the gable facing the street, an office
building. Early C20, single-storeyed with doorway to left and
2 windows. The mill was originally built for hand finishing or
hand processing of silk, but an engine house (which no longer
survives intact) was added to the mill by 1871.
(Fricker, Calladine et al: Macclesfield Mills Survey).


Listing NGR: SJ9107673574

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