Mill Gate

Mill Gate is a former mill weighing house that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 18th century and features rendered rubble with a graduated stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has two bays, with quoins marking the corners. It is a tall, narrow structure with a blocked cart arch at both the front and rear. The round arch is quoined and has dressed voussoirs. There is a 20th-century door with an overlight inserted into the front, and each floor of the right bay has a rectangular window with a slight stone surround; the window above the cart entrance may have been added later. The building also has gutter brackets, shaped kneelers, and gable copings, along with end stacks. The cart arch might have been blocked when the associated mill changed from corn grinding to cotton spinning around 1820, making the building's original purpose of recording the corn brought by farmers for grinding no longer necessary. Mill Gate is included for its group value.