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Latitude: 53.5411 / 53°32'28"N
Longitude: -2.6378 / 2°38'16"W
OS Eastings: 357831
OS Northings: 405132
OS Grid: SD578051
Mapcode National: GBR BW0H.QB
Mapcode Global: WH97Y.G844
Plus Code: 9C5VG9R6+FV
Entry Name: Trencherfield Mill
Listing Date: 14 May 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1384508
English Heritage Legacy ID: 484942
ID on this website: 101384508
Location: Wallgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN3
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Douglas
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wigan
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Wigan St James with St Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Cotton mill
WIGAN
SD50NE POTTERY ROAD
24-1/2/57 (South side)
14/05/97 Trencherfield Mill
GV II
Cotton spinning mill, now textile workshop, warehouse, museum,
offices etc. 1907-8, by Potts, Son and Hennings, for William
Woods & Son Ltd.; altered. Iron and steel frame with cladding
of red brick in English garden wall bond with dressings of
buff terracotta (roof concealed but probably asphalt). Very
large main range with tower at north-east corner, engine house
attached at right angles near south end of east side with
boiler house in south angle of this (and C20 tourist shop
attached to north side). Simplified Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and approximately 15 bays, 2 windows per
bay, with brick pilasters, the top floor featured with a
sillband, terracotta enrichment to the pilasters, 3-light
windows with blocked colonnette mullions, and parapet
upstands. Rectangular corner tower with various windows
including keyed oculi, and a 3-stage turret with a cornice to
the 1st stage, terracotta panels to the 2nd stage lettered
"1907" with open pediments above, and a square top stage,
banded, with a 3-light window in each side and a steep
pyramidal roof. 3-storey 8-window engine house with
round-headed windows at 1st floor level and oculi at 2nd floor
level, all keyed, in east end a very large lunette with 3
similar oculi above, and hipped roof.
INTERIOR: original 1906 4-cylinder triple-expansion tandem
steam engine by J & E Woods of Bolton, in working order.
Listing NGR: SD5783105132
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