Larchfield Mills

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FIRTH STREET 1. (North side) 5113 Larchfield Mills SE 1416 SE 919 - /4/10002 II GV

1. Spinning mill with attached weaving sheds. Built 1865-6 for George Brook, additions c1880 plus C20 alterations. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Mill building has double ridge hipped roofs with dentilated eaves. 5 storey, 4 windows wide and 16 windows in length. Ground and first floor windows have segment heads. All windows have rough stone cills and lintels. Some original windows survive on the floor on the south side, and on the first and second floors on the north side. The south front has a stair tower, with a taking-in door on each floor on the east front. The tower has been extended upwards by a single floor. Weaving sheds, to the south east, linked to the mill by a single storey addition and a 2 storey bridge to an elevator tower. 2 storey over a basement. 9 gables with coping, the roofs stone slate to the west and glazed to the east. North front has 35 windows with rock faced cills and lintels. Narrow east front has single central taking-in doors to each floor, the first floor one partly filled by a window. South, street front has 4 windows per gable all with flush ashlar lintels and raised ashlar cills. The second gable has a single large doorway with double panel doors with raised ashlar surround and moulded hood. The fifth and final gable has taking-in doors to each floor.

Listing NGR: SE1482616170