Galgate Silk Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Mill. 6 related planning applications.
Galgate Silk Mills
- WRENN ID
- waning-tracery-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Galgate Silk Mills, Church Lane, Ellel, LA2 0PR
- OS grid reference
- SD 485 557
- Coordinates
- 53.99511, -2.7868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A silk mill, built in 1852 for John Armstrong, and later converted into warehouse units. The building is constructed of brick with a ridge-and-furrow slate roof. It is five storeys high, with nine bays, and features corners treated as pilasters topped with stone capitals. The windows have stone lintels and small panes, with the upper lights designed to pivot horizontally. The central bay contains loading doors, some of which have been partly blocked to create windows on the ground, first, and third floors. The main entrance is located in the first bay, which is surmounted by a sprinkler tank. A two-storey range of similar appearance is linked to the main building to the north. Behind the main building, between its two parts, stands a boiler house with a tapering brick chimney of square plan. The interior is said to have wooden floors supported by iron columns.
Local climate
Galgate Silk Mills sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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