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Latitude: 53.5374 / 53°32'14"N
Longitude: -2.1355 / 2°8'7"W
OS Eastings: 391114
OS Northings: 404531
OS Grid: SD911045
Mapcode National: GBR FWJJ.GP
Mapcode Global: WHB9B.5CB1
Plus Code: 9C5VGVP7+WQ
Entry Name: Hartford Mill
Listing Date: 8 March 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210026
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388877
ID on this website: 101210026
Location: Alder Root, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9
County: Oldham
Electoral Ward/Division: Werneth
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Oldham
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Chadderton Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Mill Destroyed building or structure
OLDHAM
SD90SW BLOCK LANE
780-1/3/15 Hartford Mill
II
Cotton spinning mill. 1907. By FW Dixon for the Hartford Mill
(Oldham) Company Ltd. Extended 1920 and 1924.
Probably cast-iron and steel-framed with concrete flooring,
and brick walls with large areas of window.
Steam powered with rope transmission.
4 and 5 storeys accommodating to sloping site, 25 bays long
and 12 bays wide. Corners of main building stressed with wider
pilasters between the windows, otherwise ornamentation
confined to tower which projects from NW corner and rises 2
stages above main roofline, in heavy Baroque style with stone
dressings, including chamfered cornice below lantern-like
upper storey possibly missing former dome.
Additional stair tower in centre of north elevation, with
stone pedimented cornice. Wide windows to each bay, with
panelled pilasters to upper storey only. Present loading bays
in north east range.
Single-storeyed extension to card room along south elevation.
Power transmission at SW of main block, the engine house
projecting and expressed as 5 window range and 3 storeys.
Rope race in western elevation, which has triple central
windows flanked by blind panels with pilasters at angles.
Boiler house detached to west of mill, and chimney to south of
engine house, with mill name and corbelled bands in white
brick.
(Gurr, Duncan, and Hunt, Julian: The Cotton Mills of Oldham:
Oldham: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SD9111404531
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