Furnaces approximately 30 metres south of Cheddleton Mill

The flint furnaces located approximately 30 meters south of Cheddleton Mill date from the late 18th century. They are constructed from coursed squared and dressed sandstone blocks, with some brick dressings. The furnaces are built into a bank, featuring a retaining wall that is about 2 meters high on the north and east sides. This wall includes two buttresses on the larger north face and two small elliptically-arched furnace openings, which are brick dressed on the left side, with an additional opening to the east. The rest of the mill complex, including a kiln, grinding mills, and a manager's house, is situated across the yard to the north. Flint was processed here by firing, grinding in the mills, and bake-drying to create 'slop', a mixture used to produce more durable and finely-textured tiles and pottery for the nearby five towns in the 19th century.