1 AND 3, TOWN STREET (See details for further address information)

This is a water-powered woollen mill, warehouse, and associated buildings, now converted into five shops. The core of the building dates to the late 18th century, with a portion added in the 19th century, and has been altered since. It’s constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a 3-span stone slate roof.

The building occupies a steeply sloping site, with three gabled fronts facing Ivegate at the upper end, these sections being two storeys high. The rear elevation is four storeys high. The most significant parts are the two outer blocks. The southern block (formerly the mill) has quoins to the corners and flush-mullion windows in the side and rear walls. The three-bay, three-storey side wall features two doorways at ground floor, flanked by altered or inserted windows. A three-light window is present at the first floor, with the third light blocked; the jambs of a similar window once existed to the right, now significantly enlarged, and there is an inserted window to the left. Two sets of coupled four-pane sashes are at the second floor. The four-storey, two-bay rear wall has two three-light flush mullion windows and two sets of coupled windows, mirroring the levels of those on the side. The gable to the road has altered and inserted openings, likely former loading doors, with a doorway at street level within a former wider opening. Both gables have stone copings with flat apexes, and the street-facing gable has returned ends to the coping, resembling a simple open pediment.

The northern block has 19th-century shop fronts and first-floor windows in the gabled fronts, along with a gable chimney. Its two-bay side wall (along Town Street, incorporating numbers 1 and 3) has two doorways at street level; the doorway on the right features a datestone above reading “JAMES DIXON, 1782 MD”. A three-light window is present to the right, with a similar window above, a blocked taking-in door to the left, and coupled sashes at the second floor. An earlier two-storey addition extends to the rear of this section, containing a three-light window at the first floor, with remains of three others on different levels on the opposite side. The central element, of less architectural significance, is said to have been built over the former water course for a water wheel.