Buildings At Longfords Mill

Dyehouses, dating from the early 19th century, with construction between 1813 and 1830 for numbers 34 and 35, and 1839 for number 36. They are built of coursed limestone rubble and ashlar, with gabled stone slate roofs to numbers 34 and 36, and double Roman roofs to number 35. The arrangement is in an L-shape, with number 36 to the south, number 35 in the centre, and number 34 at a right angle to the northeast. The buildings are single-storey. Number 34 has a semi-circular arched door on the west gable end and a roof vent. Number 35 has wide arched openings in its end gables and timber lintels over six windows on its east elevation. Number 36, which is taller, has two segmental-arched 19th-century three-light casement windows to its south gable, as well as three segmental-arched and two timber-lintelled windows. Inside number 36, tie-beam corbels remain; number 35 has a wide-span collar-truss roof incorporating a large flywheel from number 36; and number 34 features a mid-19th century, five-bay collar-truss roof with truncated tie beams and lower collars of a composite construction. These buildings were likely originally used for dyeing, washing, and scouring processes. The lower sections of the walls on all sides of number 34 are built of finely-jointed ashlar, while the upper floors are of squared and coursed rubble, which suggests to the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments that an original function might have been washing or scouring.