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Latitude: 53.606 / 53°36'21"N
Longitude: -2.4303 / 2°25'49"W
OS Eastings: 371625
OS Northings: 412251
OS Grid: SD716122
Mapcode National: GBR CVGR.N2
Mapcode Global: WH97N.MMXD
Plus Code: 9C5VJH49+CV
Entry Name: The Cottonworks
Listing Date: 4 November 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1387926
English Heritage Legacy ID: 475920
ID on this website: 101387926
Location: Astley Bridge, Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL1
County: Bolton
Electoral Ward/Division: Astley Bridge
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bolton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Astley Bridge St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Mill
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/01/2018
SD71SW
797-1/2/39
BOLTON
BLACKBURN ROAD (East side)
The Cottonworks
(Formerly listed as Astley Bridge Mill)
04/11/96
II
Former cotton spinning mill. 1927. By Bradshaw, Gass and Hope. For Sir John Holden. Brick, with steel and concrete internal structure and flat (concrete) roof.
EXTERIOR: five storeys and basement,14x6 bays with stressed angles (housing services), one with tower. Wide flat headed windows grouped in threes between pilasters with ornamented terracotta capitals. Cornice over fourth floor, and brick mullions to attic windows. Fretted parapet. Stair tower at north-west angle, with round arched windows with balconettes in upper storey, and domed copper roof. Two storey extension to card rooms (probably contemporary with building of main mill) runs along eastern elevation. Single storey extension (probably associated with electrical power system of mill) attached to north elevation. Short chimney of square section in centre of north elevation, serving heating boilers. South elevation divided by full-height pilasters with neo-Egyptian capitals.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the mill was built to use mains electricity as its power source, and was the last mill to be built in Bolton.
Listing NGR: SD7162512251
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