Millbrook House

Millbrook House is a late 18th-century house with subsequent alterations dating from the 1870s, around 1880, and 1924. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings and has stone slate roofs, featuring stone gable end stacks. The building has an irregular plan.

The north elevation, representing the late 18th-century mill owner's house, is three storeys high. A single-storey flat-roofed extension was added in 1924. The ground floor has a three-light square-sectioned mullion window. Above this is a similar four-light window, flanked on each side by three-light windows, with casement lights. The attic storey features two two-light and one three-light mullion windows with glazing bar sashes and fixed lights. The west elevation, dating from the 1870s, has two storeys and a parapet. A tall staircase window has a pointed arch and Gothic glazing bars with margin lights. Two canted oriel windows are situated to the right, with two diamond-shaped basement lights below. Other windows are plain sash windows with square heads. A first-floor string band is present. The east elevation is largely in a plain style from the 1870s and features glazed sashes.

Internal remodelling in 1924, by Briggs and Thornely, created a new dining room, incorporating a porch entrance, a two-light mullion window, and two canted bays. A conservatory connects the house to a billiard room and clock tower, both dating from around 1880. The billiard room is single-storied, with stone coped and lead coped gables, ball finials, and a part-glazed roof. The interior maintains original panelling, and features an Art Nouveau lavatory and 'tip-up' wash hand basins.

The four-stage clock tower is divided by string bands and has a gabled top and a chimney. It has stone coped gables and a ball finial. The tower abuts the billiard room to the west, and on the east side is a round-arched doorway. Clock faces are on the east and west sides, with the string band below supported on stone brackets.

The house’s history includes the original cotton mill, built by John Sidebottom in the late 18th century. Following a fire, the mill was demolished in 1882, and the gardens were subsequently laid out by Edward Milner.