Peat Store Of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill

The peat store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill, now used as a hay barn, dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of rubble with a corrugated sheet roof and consists of two storeys and four bays. The building features quoins and has four cart openings on the ground floor, each with semi-circular arches made of rubble voussoirs. Above these openings are plain openings. This peat store is the only substantially complete structure remaining from the Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill, which was built around 1840 and extended in 1855. The mill replaced an earlier mill located near Preston corn mill. In 1855, the flue of the smelting mill, which has since collapsed, was extended to approximately two miles, ending near Cobscar Lead Smelting Mill in the parish of Redmire. The mill ceased operations around 1888. The Keldheads Mines were situated near Preston Mill in the parish of Wensley.