2 Factory Lane

No. 2 Factory Lane is an early 19th-century cotton mill that has been converted into a shop. The building features coursed sandstone and slate roofs, except for a right-hand addition that has stone slates. It stands three storeys high and has eight bays, with a two-bay projection on the left that has heavy quoins, and a narrow addition under a gable roof on the right that carries a datestone, which may not be in its original position, above what might have been a staircase projection. The lower roof of the left-hand projection is original, but the top storey of the eight-bay block was rebuilt around 1900 with taller windows. All windows have plain reveals.

Inside, the original construction likely included unsupported beams spanning approximately 9 meters between the walls. However, on the ground floor and first floor, some of these beams are now supported by cast-iron columns. On the ground floor, there are also three cast-iron columns with a cruciform cross-section and U-shaped heads, which likely supported the bearings of shafts that drove machinery.