Brownsfield Mill

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Brownsfield Mill, Binns Place, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, England, is an early nineteenth century room and power mill constructed in 1825.[1] Hartwell describes it as "unusually complete and well preserved."[2] It is a Grade II* listed building.[3] The building housed the Avro, A.V. Roe and Company aviation factory in the early twentieth century.[4]

Notes

  1. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester, page 284
  2. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester, page 284
  3. Brownfield Mill, Heritage Gateway, retrieved 15 January 2012 
  4. http://www.verdon-roe.co.uk/#/thelifeofavroe/biography/

References

  • Hartwell, C. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester (2002) Yale University Press

Coordinates: 53°28′56″N 2°13′44″W / 53.4821°N 2.2290°W / 53.4821; -2.2290

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