Booth Hollings Mill

SD 91 SE LITTLEBOROUGH - SD 951139 Booth Hollings Mill 4/1 - II Woollen mill, now in agricultural use. Late C18 with C19 wing. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with slate roof. Deep 2-storey range with internal water-wheel formerly located at west end. Later wing to rear creates an L-shaped building. Segmental-arched cart entry, now blocked, with keystone. 2 doors with dressed surrounds and 5 windows with square-cut surrounds. Recessed flat-faced mullion window with king mullions runs the full length of the upper floor, now almost entirely blocked and with a door inserted. Gable chimney stack. Lean-to addition to right gable. 8-bay wing to rear has window openings with stone lintels and sills and incorporates a boiler room and engine house. A heavy square chimney breaks through the ridgeline. Interior: single-span floors propped at centre. Domestic quarters incorporated in one corner. Wheel housing remains. King-post roof trusses. Used for bleaching and fulling in the mid C19.

Listing NGR: SD9517413926