Gayle Mill

Gayle Mill is a cotton mill, now functioning as a saw mill, built around 1784. It features a rubble construction with a stone slate roof and stands three storeys tall with six bays. The building has quoins, and in the third bay, there are leaved board doors beneath a deep timber lintel, along with small wheels set in the floor to facilitate the movement of timber onto the saw-bench inside. Most of the original 16-pane fixed-light windows have been replaced with eight-pane windows. There is a stack at the left end and a former bellcote at the right end.

On the rear elevation, there is a blocked tail-race opening from the wheel chamber near the stream, featuring a round arch made of rubble voussoirs and a hood-mould. The windows are arranged in a regular pattern. The right return has a blocked doorway that once provided access to the axle of the waterwheel located in the centre of the ground floor. The left return has a first-floor end entry with leaved board doors.

Inside, there are two workable water turbines made by Williamson of Kendal. The mill transitioned to spinning wool for the local knitting industry in the late 18th century and was converted to a saw mill in the 19th century. The original overshot waterwheel was replaced by turbines in the late 19th century. From 1919 to 1948, these turbines supplied electric light to the village.