Mill Dam at Westwood Mills is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 2000. A Industrial Revolution Dam. 1 related planning application.
Mill Dam at Westwood Mills
- WRENN ID
- white-pier-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 2000
- Type
- Dam
- Period
- Industrial Revolution
- Address
- Mill Dam at Westwood Mills, Lowestwood Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 094 145
- Coordinates
- 53.62762, -1.85807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mill Dam at Westwood Mills is a dam for a mill pond, constructed in 1801 and enlarged in 1824 and 1858. It is made of coursed local gritstone and features a retaining wall that is approximately 3 meters high on the east face. The dam has sluice gates at the north end for the water wheel and at the south end for overflow. It is triangular in shape, tapering towards the goit from the river at the west end, measuring about 200 meters long and 50 meters wide.
The north side of the mill pond is bordered by the towpath of the Huddersfield Canal, which was built around the same time, while the south side slopes down to the River Colne. This pond also provided water to the smaller mill dam at Lower Mill to the southeast, now known as Titanic Mill.
Historically, it was documented in 1801 as the dam embankment, byewash, pentrough, and wheel race. The enlargement in 1824 coincided with the addition of a new two-storey fulling mill, which included a wheel race, wooden and stone pentroughs, the dam embankment, two trunks, sluices, and byegoits.
Local climate
Mill Dam at Westwood Mills sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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