Millbeck Towers

Millbeck Towers is a former woollen carding mill that has been converted into a private house. It dates from the late 18th century and underwent extensive alterations in 1903 for John Daniel Banks. The building features cement render and roughcast walls, with Lombard frieze eaves beneath a Welsh slate roof. It has distinctive fish-scale greenslate pavilions topped with weather vanes and rendered chimney stacks. The structure is three storeys high and has three bays, flanked by three-storey angle towers. The entrance includes a top-glazed door, and there are 20th-century casement windows set in cement surrounds beneath pediments. For further historical context, see the Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, volume vii, pages 158-172. A painting of the building prior to its conversion is featured in Molly Lefebure's book, Cumberland Heritage, published in 1970, page 125.