Town House Mill

This is a wool warehouse, likely used for storage, dating from 1752. It was built for Lawrence and Sarah Newall, as evidenced by a carved stone bearing their initials and the Newall coat of arms. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone with a graduated stone slate roof. It has a total of six bays and three storeys, with quoins marking the corners. Each bay features a three- or four-light chamfered mullion window on each floor. A chamfered door with a segmental head is situated in the third bay, and a taking-in door is blocked on the first floor. Bays five and six are slightly later additions and have double loading doors on each floor, which are set beneath segmental keystone arches. Brick ridge and gable chimney stacks are present. The rear elevation has similar window design. Inside, the single-span floors are supported by later cylindrical cast-iron columns. The warehouse is described in Fishwick's History of Rochdale, published in 1889.