Site Event/Activity record ECH6822 - Kingsley Mill, Frodsham: Historic Building Recording

Archaeological building recording (level 2) was undertaken in 2000 for the locally listed Kingsley Mill, Frodsham in advance of proposed re-development. The brick built mill building dates from the seventeenth century with later nineteenth century alterations and further twentieth century additions. The presence of large stone blocks at basement level on the north-west and north-east sides may indicate remains of an earlier mill. It appears on Greenwood’s map of 1819, marked as Kingsley Mill and was extended to the south in the later nineteenth century. The Mill was occupied by the Gibson family from at least the early nineteenth century until around the Second World War. The family adapted the Mill building for animal feed manufacture and mixing in the 1970s and an additional loading door on the north-west elevation and a loading gantry on the roof of the southern section of the Mill building appear to have been added at this time, with a two-storey building to the east linked to the mill at the upper level. (1)