Description

STALYBRIDGE CASTLE STREET
SJ 99 NE
4/182 Castle Street Mills
(also known as
Cheetham's Mill and
Longland's Mill)
II
the serial number shall be amended to read 4/10003.

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STALYBRIDGE CASTLE STREET
SJ 99 NE
4/182 Castle Street Mills
(also known as
Cheetham's Mill and
Longland's Mill)
II

Former cotton spinning mill (for hosiery yarn), now in various uses. Founded by
George Cheetham; first factory 1805 with builds of 1820-21, 1827 an later
alterations. The site's development is well documented; surviving ranges fit the
evidence on stylistic grounds and all the ranges were in place on the 1850 O.S. map.
Brick with stone dressings; slate and (in part) corrugated roofing material. Plan:
earliest (1805) range aligned N/S fronting Castle Street; this was extended N
(towards the river) in 1820 (datestone); at about the same time (C. 1819.21) a
parallel range, similar in design was added to the E. These two ranges were
connected by cross wings fronting Castle Street and the river to form a courtyard
plan overall. Earliest range, 4 storeys; gabled (pedimented) end wall towards
Castle Street, slightly irregular fenestration, with Venetian window to gable wall,
4 windows to 3rd. 6 to 1st and 2nd (the three to the right closely spaced; ground
floor altered. Long return (to left), 14 window bays, one early vehicle entrance
(under depressed brick arch) and C20 sliding door in addition, the latter under a
tall round-headed window that rises through 1st and 2nd floors and marks the
position of what was originally an integral, internal end-engine house. 10-window
range in series under slightly lower roof, dated 1820 (datestone over vehicular
entrance with stone quoining). Late Victorian doorway arch of several orders
inserted. Windows throughout under stone wedge lintels; windows mostly C20 in
original openings. Riverside end wall, regular 2-window range, with blind lunette
in gable wall. Parallel range with similar detailing; originally a 3-window gabled
range towards Castle Street, with windows inserted on all floors. Long return
(right), regular fenestration; towards the N the wall projects and this marks the
position of the internal engine house for this section of the mill. Regular 6
window cross wing links the parallel ranges towards Castle Street; a similar
6-window wing connects the earlier ranges on the river-side elevation, but where
there is a short three storeyed section of infil in addition. Stalybridge is of more
than local interest in the history of the late C18 and early-C19 textile industry.
It was famous for its high-quality hosiery goods and many of the initial
manufacturing problems were solved by Stalybridge operators. Castle Street Mills is
therefore of considerable interest in the development of the hosiery industry before
it became established on a factory basis elsewhere in the country (especially in the
E. Midlands). See W. Felkin, History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace
Manufacture (1867). P.120.

Listing NGR: SJ9614098467

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623167

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)