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Butts Mill is a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1905 by Stott and Sons of Oldham. This cotton spinning mill was originally designed as a double mill and has one wall unfinished. The mirror half of the mill was never built. It is the only large, early twentieth century cotton spinning mill in the Wigan district and one of the best surviving examples of its type in the Greater Manchester area. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-436632-butts-mill-leigh - British Listed Buildings

Butts Mill is a Grade II listed building, built in 1905 by Stott and Sons of Oldham. This cotton spinning mill, on Butts Street, was originally designed as a double mill and has one wall unfinished. The mirror half of the mill was never built. It is the only large, early twentieth century cotton spinning mill in the Wigan district and one of the best surviving examples of its type in the Greater Manchester area. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-436632-butts-mill-leigh - British Listed Buildings

Butts Mill is a Grade II listed building, built in 1905 by Stott and Sons of Oldham. This cotton spinning mill, on Butts Street, was originally designed as a double mill and has one wall unfinished. The mirror half of the mill was never built. It is the only large, early twentieth century cotton spinning mill in the Wigan district and one of the best surviving examples of its type in the Greater Manchester area. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-436632-butts-mill-leigh - British Listed Buildings

Built 1907 with a nominal capital of £100k. Mule spinning with 150,000 spindles on mules by Dobson & Barlow. Engine was a Carels of Ghent and of adequate size for a double mill. the floors are reinforced concrete rather than earlier brick jack arches. Reference is Roger Holden (1998) - Stott and Sons, Architects of the Lancashire Cotton Mill.

Designed by Stott & Sons and built in 1905. This is one half of an intended double mill, hence the very plain end wall. The projecting engine house overlaps the end wall and housed a massive horizontal cross compound by Carel Freres of Belgium. The chimney has been truncated. In the distance is the full height chimney of Leigh Spinners Ltd. The mill was built for cotton spinning but is now in other usage.

Built 1907 with a nominal capital of £100k. Mule spinning with 150,000 spindles on mules by Dobson & Barlow. Engine was a Carels of Ghent and of adequate size for a double mill. the floors are reinforced concrete rather than earlier brick jack arches. Reference is Roger Holden (1998) - Stott and Sons, Architects of the Lancashire Cotton Mill. This shows the ornate stair tower with its cupola rather lost against the blue sky. The blank wall on the left is the end of the rope race where the second mill would have been built.

Cotton spinning mill designed by Stott & Sons of Oldham. The plain brick end wall gives the game away - this was designed with the intention of being doubled in size but it never happened. The mill engine was big enough to do a double mill and you can see the end of the engine house overlaps the end of the mill. There were several examples of this and Pear Mill, Bredbury is an example that springs to mind.

Built 1907 with a nominal capital of £100k. Mule spinning with 150,000 spindles on mules by Dobson & Barlow. Engine was a Carels of Ghent and of adequate size for a double mill. the floors are reinforced concrete rather than earlier brick jack arches. Reference is Roger Holden (1998) - Stott and Sons, Architects of the Lancashire Cotton Mill. This view shows the blank end wall of the single mill that was built. The second mill would have covered this and extended towards the photographer. The bearing boxes are in the wall of the rope race and indicate where the drive shafts were for each floor. The engine house on the left extends beyond the end wall and ropes from the flywheel would have passed to the right into the rope race for the second mill. This is a superb example of an Edwardian cotton spinning mill.

Butts Mill is the red brick mill with a cupola on top of the stair tower and a truncated chimney carrying its name. Built 1907 with a nominal capital of £100k. Mule spinning with 150,000 spindles on mules by Dobson & Barlow. Engine was a Carels of Ghent and of adequate size for a double mill. the floors are reinforced concrete rather than earlier brick jack arches. Reference is Roger Holden (1998) - Stott and Sons, Architects of the Lancashire Cotton Mill.