Blisworth Mill, Including Engine Room And Office

This is a steam mill, dated 1879, situated on Gayton Road, Blisworth. The building is constructed of orange-coloured Flemish bond brick with blue engineering brick and stone dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with coped gable ends, moulded stone kneelers, and a moulded brick eaves cornice.

The mill is rectangular, with its east side facing the canal and its west side facing a yard. The engine room and chimney are located on the north-west corner, and a single-storey office is situated on the west side of the yard. The building stands four storeys high, plus an attic and basement. The eight-bay east elevation, facing the canal, features giant pilasters and saw-tooth segmental arches above the top windows. It contains 25- and 20-pane cast-iron windows set in segmental arch openings, with some being blind or blocked. A blocked basement and ground-floor doorway are centrally located. Originally, a canopy overhung the ground floor, extending over the canal. The west elevation is similar, but with a truncated chimney and engine house in the first three bays; the truncated chimney has a later tank on top, and the engine house has matching windows, with round arches in the gable ends. The north and south ends each have three bays, with the centre bay rising into a gable. Tablets with the inscription ‘J Westley 1879’ are positioned in a round arch to the left and right of the gable. A small, single-storey office on the west side of the yard has brick pilastered window bays. The doorway is surmounted by a pediment, and includes a 20th-century porch.

The interior contains no machinery, but features boarded floors, large pine beams supported on cast-iron posts that diminish in size with each ascending storey, and a queen-strut roof.

According to Kelly's Directory of 1898, the mill was operated by Westley Bros and Clark as millers.