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Mango wins top award from RICS

A formerly derelict mill, home to a large group of squatters before being renovated, has won a top award from the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors).

Mayroyd Mill won the first prize in the Residential category of the 2004 RICS Pro Yorkshire awards, supported by the BBC and Yorkshire Forward, which were held at the Queen’s Hotel in Leeds on Thursday evening (23 rd September 2004).

Mayroyd Mill had been derelict for ten years when it was bought by Phil Bradby of Mango Developments Ltd in 1999. Originally built as a canal-side sawmill, the building had more recently been used as an egg-boxing factory before falling into disuse.

The conversion design is an unusual one since it divides the building vertically into ten family homes, most with roof terraces looking south across the Calder Valley. The building tapers considerably meaning that no two houses are the same. Mayroyd’s design was intended to help fill a gap in the market for larger homes in a steeply hilly area where building new houses with gardens and parking would prove otherwise impossible.

The homes at Mayroyd sold off-plan quickly, and Mango Developments now has its sights set firmly on its next development, Melbourne Mill, in Hebden Bridge, which will see eighteen beautiful new apartments created from a redundant textile mill close to the town centre.