Monument record 2608/59 - Lowe Street Mill

<1> Calladine A & Fricker J, 1993, East Cheshire Textile Mills, p.49,66 (Book). SCH1093.

An early nineteenth century steam powered mill with a dry chute privy tower. It conforms to a standard format of construction which is generally viewed as typical of early textile mill architecture. A warehouse extension shares a similar type of brick and architectural style to the main building suggesting it was added shortly after mill was built.

<2> Macclesfield Express, 1997-2024, Macclesfield Express, Britton K, 23/11/2015 (Newspaper-Magazine). SCH9723.

Brunswick Mill on Lowe Street was founded in around 1860. The building later became home to metal fabricators ER Burgess for around twenty years. Now occupied by a joinery business.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1873-4, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Macclesfield (Maps and Plans). SCH4489.

This map depicts the mill building with the engine house and boiler house located at the south-eastern end of the building. The map does not depict the warehouse. It is labelled Brunswick Mill (Silk).

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9173, 1871-3 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map does not depict the warehouse. The building is labelled Brunswick Mill (Silk).

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9173, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

This map does not depict the warehouse.

<6> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 22/11/2024 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Brunswick Mill and Lowe Mill have separate entries in the East Cheshire Textile Mills gazetteer (see 1). The former entry is poorly located. Pickford Street C Mill (CHER 2608/34) is named Brunswick Mill on modern Ordnance Survey maps, however late nineteenth century maps (see 3 and 4) label this mill as Brunswick Mill. These maps also indicate that the warehouse is not contemporary with the mill buildings (see 1). In addition the warehouse is built of a distinctly different brick, though the window design is similar to that of the mill building. It probably dates from the early to mid-twentieth century.