Arrow Vale Mill

Arrow Vale Mill is a cotton spinning mill built by 1908. It features a steel and concrete internal structure, with walls made of red brick and ashlar details, topped with grey slates. The mill complex is largely intact and consists of a single building for primary production, an office and reception building, an engine house at the rear corner, and a separate boiler house with a chimney.

The main building is five storeys tall, measuring 44 by 5 bays, and includes a water tower at the northeast corner that displays the name 'ARROW'. It has a tall hipped roof with a band of glazing and a wrought-iron balustrade, along with smaller corner towers. The exterior features tall, thin rectangular windows with stone sills, brick lintels, and brick pilasters along the rope race on the north side. The engine house has a round-arched recess and corner pilasters at the north end of the west side. There is a two-storey carding and preparation room parallel to the road, and a two-storey office block at the northeast corner, which has ashlar bands, a pedimented entrance, plate glass sashes with decorative etched panes, and a blind parapet. The workshops and boiler house include a cylindrical chimney with a moulded crown on the northwest side.

Historically, the mill is located on the south side of the Rochdale canal. It originally housed a J and W McNaught 1700 horsepower vertical triple expansion steam engine made in 1907, which weighed 47 tons and drove 40 ropes, with a flywheel measuring 22 feet in diameter. By the 1950s, the engine was repurposed to drive an alternator, and many electrically driven frames were installed at that time. The engine was eventually scrapped around 1960. Arrow Vale Mill is a notable example of early 20th-century mill architecture that has survived almost completely.