Esgair Moel Woollen Factory

Long rectangular building worked by water-power with whitewashed stone rubble walls with dressed stone door and window openings. Welsh slate roof with three rubblestone stacks. The building was extended several times to include all the processes of woollen manufacture, thus, carding, dyeing, spinning, twisting, warping, weaving, willying, fulling. Original portion possibly the southern end, comprising office and store with cobbled floors and with weaving room above. Fulling mill and willying rooms to north with flagged floors. Probably extended in 1830s or 40s when water-driven spinning and carding machines became widespread. Probably late C19 small lean-to with chimney, comprising dyeing rooms against south gable end. The east elevation faces the pond. The ground floor has four windows, four doors and the wheel-arch, thus from the left : W : D : D : W : D : W : A : W : D; eight irregularly spaced windows above. The windows are 1, 2 and 3-light ones with 2-light ones in the weaving room, the doors are plain boarded. The west elevation is set into the bank and has five small windows below, the largest being 4-light, and six windows and a doorway above.

Internal wheel in centre of building. Original portion possibly the southern end, comprising office and store with cobbled floors and with weaving room above. Fulling mill and willying rooms to north with flagged floors. Northern first floor room for carding, spinning, twisting and warping and lit by five windows in east wall and four in west. Two steps up to weaving room at south end, lit by large windows. On ground floor, willying room at north end, fulling mill, section with earth floor for finishing processes. The machinery is of varying date and origin. Of particular note are the carding-jack, the spinning engines, the water wheel and the fulling stocks.