Belle Vue Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1991. Mill.

Belle Vue Mill

WRENN ID
watchful-mullion-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Burnley
Constituency
Burnley MP: Oliver Ryan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 April 1991
Type
Mill
Address
Belle Vue Mill, Westgate
OS grid reference
SD 833 326
Coordinates
53.7902, -2.25453
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Belle Vue Mill is a cotton weaving mill with an attached warehouse, built in 1863 for William Richmond. It is currently used for alternative commercial purposes. The structure is made of roughly squared coursed millstone grit rubble and has slate roofs. The warehouse has two storeys and a basement, with weaving sheds located to the south, which are enclosed by a perimeter wall.

The warehouse features an 11-bay Westgate elevation that follows the gentle curve of the street. Between bays 7 and 8, there is a tall, separately coped and gabled transverse wall with no visible masonry joint from the roadside. The street entrance next to this wall has a simply chamfered surround. The upper floors have 2-light, 6-paned windows, while the basement windows are either boarded or fitted with grilles. The east end wall has an enlarged vehicle entrance beneath an advertisement hoarding. The rear elevation has 12 bays with similar window arrangements as the front. The weaving sheds appear to be intact, although they were not inspected.

Attached to the south-west corner is a square wing with two low storeys and three windows on the west side, topped with a pyramidal roof. The chimney stack and engine house have been demolished. Inside the warehouse, there are chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor.

Local climate

Belle Vue Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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