Gibson Mill

Gibson Mill is a mill that was formerly used for cotton spinning, built in the early to mid 19th century. It features well-coursed hammer-dressed stone with finer dressed quoins and a stone slate roof. The building has three and a half storeys and two bands. The southeast elevation faces a yard and originally consisted of six bays, with two additional bays added to the north, likely when a steam engine was installed. All windows have plain stone surrounds with projecting sills, linked by common tiestone that interrupts the jambs. There is a segmental arched cart entry set within the seventh bay and quoins between the sixth and seventh bays. The left-hand return wall has three bays of windows on the second floor and three closer-set windows in the attic. A gable stack is present, and the rear has six bays of windows, although those on the ground floor are partly obscured by banking for the adjacent mill dam. A tall dressed stack, rectangular in plan and tapering, rises from the northeast corner. The right-hand return wall has three bays of windows and a taking-in door to the second floor in the central bay. Inside, there is a finely dressed water channel in the basement that houses a water turbine from around 1912. The floors are supported by large spine beams and slender cast-iron columns. Gibson Mill is a fine example of a small early 19th-century water-driven textile mill, retaining its fenestration, although all the windows are currently lacking glazing and are blocked by hardboard. The mill is owned by the National Trust.