![]() ![]() Located well away from the town centre, the casual observer may spot little more remarkable than a well-preserved industrial structure given a new lease of life.īut Flaxmill Maltings’ status as the world’s oldest-surviving iron-framed building makes it the precursor to 19th-century steel-framed structures of the Windy City, the Big Apple and Philly, and of course the Burj Khalifah in Dubai.Īt just five storeys in height, it does not come anywhere near to modern definitions of a skyscraper – even with the later addition of a further three storeys and coronet that make up its Jubilee Tower. Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings is some distance from the town’s medieval heart, in a loop of the River Severn, upstream of Abraham Darby’s 1779 cast-iron bridge over the river around 13 miles to the south-east. According to government heritage adviser Historic England, it is located in the county town of Shropshire, where a complex £28m programme of refurbishment and shoring up, designed to secure the 1797 structure for at least another 100 years, has just completed. Quizzers of the world take note: the grand-daddy of all skyscrapers is not to be found in Chicago, New York or Philadelphia. The main mill was constructed in 1797 and is the oldest-surviving iron-framed building in the world ![]() Building Boardroom Digital Construction Academy. ![]()
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