Yore Mill

Yore Mill is a watermill, now functioning as a museum, built in 1854. It features a rubble construction and a stone slate roof, with a T-shaped plan and a wing that projects to the north. The building has four storeys plus a loft and consists of eight bays, with quoins and 14-pane windows set under relieving arches. The roof is adorned with five large metal cowls.

On the east elevation, there is a central bay of board doors on each floor, except for a glazed door on the first floor, which is flanked by windows. A bell turret is located on the gable. The west elevation includes a 20th-century entrance to the museum on the first floor and has an added crow-stepped parapet on the gable.

Inside, cast-iron H-section columns support large timber beams. The mill is built on the site of a medieval fulling mill next to the river crossing of Yore Bridge and replaced a late 18th-century cotton mill that was destroyed by fire in 1853. Initially rebuilt as a combined corn and woollen mill, it was used solely as a corn mill by the late 19th century, becoming one of the largest in the Dales. In 1937, the mill was refitted with a roller plant, the cowls were installed, and the waterwheel was replaced by turbines. The building now houses a large collection of horse-drawn carriages.