Description

KEIGHLEY AIREWORTH ROAD
SE 04 SE (west side)

5/1 Aireworth Mill

II

Mill. Late C18-early C19 and slightly later. Coursed stone, stone slate and
Welsh slate roofs. Main range 3 storeys, 13 bays to left with taller, 6-bay
section added to right, all windows with glazing bars, stone cills and lintels.
Left-hand section has bricked up arch with voussoirs on right, with 2 doors to its
left. Rear has loading bays and semicircular stair tower with curved windows with
glazing bars and embattled parapet. Right return has clock in architrave to
gable. In front and to left of this range is engine house with round-arched,
voussoired doorway with impost band and keyed oculus and hoist above. Ashlar
coping. Left return brick. Both returns with shaped gutter brackets on table.
Tall, tapering, octagonal chimney. Disused at time of resurvey. In 1790 the mill
was used by John Greenwood for cotton spinning. Greenwood and his son soon
afterwards built Vale Mill, Vale Mill Lane (Hodgson, pp.218-9).
J Hodgson, Textile Manufacture in Keighley, 1879.

Listing NGR: SE0726141945

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427428

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey