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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579876

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)