Vale Mills (Oldest Part Only) is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Cotton mill.

Vale Mills (Oldest Part Only)

WRENN ID
final-span-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1986
Type
Cotton mill
Address
Vale Mills (Oldest Part Only), Vale Mill Lane, Keighley
OS grid reference
SE 037 382
Coordinates
53.84056, -1.94473
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vale Mills is an early 19th-century cotton mill built for John Greenwood and his Son. It features coursed millstone grit and a graduated Westmorland slate roof. The mill has a 'T'-shaped layout, with a three-storey trunk that spans the river and road, and an office block at the south end of the mill yard. There are two-storey ranges extending to the west and east. The three-storey section includes a quoined, shouldered arch over the road and a lower segmental arch with rusticated voussoirs and spandrels over the river. The building has many small-paned windows with stone lintels and continuous cill bands, topped with ashlar coping. The Greenwoods also constructed a row of cottages and a school nearby.

Local climate

Vale Mills (Oldest Part Only) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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