Gayle Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1969. A Georgian Cotton mill, saw mill.
Gayle Mill
- WRENN ID
- wild-pediment-swallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1969
- Type
- Cotton mill, saw mill
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SD 88 NE 20/121
HAWES GAYLE Gayle Mill
25.3.69
GV II*
Cotton mill, now saw mill. c1784. Rubble, stone slate roof. Three storeys, six bays. Quoins. In bay three, leaved board doors under deep timber lintel, with small wheels set in floor for movement of timber onto saw-bench inside. Original 16-pane fixed-light windows mostly replaced by eight-pane windows. Stack at end left, former bellcote at end right.
Rear elevation: blocked tail-race opening from wheelchamber in corner near stream with round arch of rubble voussoirs and hood-mould; regular pattern of windows. Right return: blocked doorway formerly giving access to axle of waterwheel in centre of ground floor. Left return: first-floor end entry with leaved board doors.
Interior: two workable water turbines by Williamson of Kendal. The mill was switched to spinning wool for the local knitting industry in the late C18, and was converted to a saw mill in the C19. The overshot waterwheel was replaced by turbines in the late C19. From 1919 - 1948 the turbines supplied electric light for the village.
James Alderson, Under Wetherfell (1980), pp 132-3.
Listing NGR: SD8711689382
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