A tall cast-iron mill window with low leather chairs set on a weathered concrete floor and exposed brick walls

Ancoats Mill Loft

Ancoats, ManchesterResidential Interior20244,200 sq ft

Location: Ancoats, Manchester
Scope: Residential Interior
Completed: 2024
Area: 390 m² · 4,200 sq ft

A former cotton-mill floor reworked as one long, quiet home. The brick, the iron columns and the rhythm of the windows were kept exactly as found; everything new sits inside them as joinery.

Oak kitchen run with a stone worktop beside an original concrete column

A raw mill floor before the work began, with timber joists and long shafts of sunlight

Structure

The building leads

The plan follows the mill's own bays. Each room is a span between columns, so the structure reads from one end of the floor to the other.

The red-brick mill exterior with its row of dormer windows against a blue sky — The building from the street. The new dormers sit in the line of the originals.

Materials

Oak, stone, lime

Three materials carry the whole interior: European oak joinery, a quartzite worktop and lime plaster on the new walls. Nothing is painted that did not need to be.

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