Building record 2608/23 - Alma Mill, Crompton Road

Silk weaving mill, built 1823. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and basement, 8 x 3 bays. Gable faces street with stepped coping and flat roofed continuation to right over loading bays. Doorway in roll moulded archtrave to ground floor, loading doors with hoist above entrance. 3 windows in the gable, and a single light in the apex. Transomed windows with flat- arched brick heads. Privy tower a small angled projection from rear gable. Internal structure comprises cast iron columns carrying timber beams. The mill was originally built for hand finishing or hand processing of silk, but an engine house (which no longer survives intact) was added to the mill by 1871 (1).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 886-1/9/73 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Calladine A & Fricker J, 1993, East Cheshire Textile Mills, /163 (Y) (Book). SCH1093.

<3> Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Revised List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Borough of Macclesfield 1994/ 50 (Unpublished Report). SCH4570.