Summary : Cotton spinning mill, 1867, (architect unknown) for Shorrock Brothers & Co. Rock-faced sandstone with sandstone dressings, flat roof. Rectangular plan 330ft. by 99ft. with projecting towers at corners and to centre of both sides, 6 storeys, with projecting lower engine houses on both sided near south end. Engine house on west side in classical style with channelled rustication has rock-faced west wall with piers in centre and at corners, round-headed windows with exaggerated voussoirs, side walls of ashlar with large round-headed Venetian-style windows. Chimney of square section, 300 feet high, in the style of an Italian campanile. Rests on foundation stone said to have been the largest single block quarried since Cleopatra's Needle. |
More information : (SD 69422176) India Mills (Spun Raylon) (NAT) (1) SD 694218. India Mill, Darwen, built in 1870 has a six storey main block of 'fireproof' structure, an ornamental stone engine house and a 300 ft high freestanding chimney in the form of a Venetian tower with windows with an elaborate Renaissance ornament at the top. Chimney grade II. (2-3)
SD 69422176. A cotton spinning mill of 1867, comprising a 6 storey main block, two attached engine houses and a massive freestanding chimney. The main building is listed Grade II and the chimney is Grade II*. (4)
India Mill, Darwen, built between 1859-71 by Eccles Shorrock & Company. It has a six-storey main block of ‘fireproof’ structure, an ornamental stone engine house and a 300ft high free-standing chimney in the form of a Venetian tower with windows and an elaborate Renaissance ornament at the top. Grade II Listed Building. Cotton spinning mill, 1867, (architect unknown) for Shorrock Brothers & Co. Rock-faced sandstone with sandstone dressings, flat roof. Rectangular plan 330ft by 99ft with projecting lower engine houses on both sides near south end. Rock-faced quoins, bracketed sill band to 4th storey, plain bands at mid-level of all storeys except top which has impost band to round headed windows with keystones. Engine house on west side in classical style with channelled rustication has rock-faced west wall with piers in centre and at corners, round-headed windows with exaggerated voussoirs, side walls of ashlar with large round headed Venetian-style windows, and a modillioned cornice carried round the whole (modern 2-storey addition continues above this): at ground level is lower range linking engine house with chimney (q.v.), the south side consisting of a rock-faced rusticated arcade of 6 round arches with moulded imposts (north side now covered by low office block). Engine house on east side in style matching rest of mill; high modern extension of brick built in re-entrant. Two 125hp beam engines manufactured by W & J Yates were installed in 1871 and, by 1873, the mill housed 168 cards and 67,968 mule spindles; a newspaper article of 1893 stated that the mill housed 80,000 spindles. In 1890, the beam engines were replaced by a 1800ihp twin tandem compound engine, manufactured by Musgraves of Bolton. Ring spinning was introduced during the early twentieth century, and by the 1920s 62, 776 mule and 32,400 ring spindles were in operation. The mill closed in 1991. (5) |