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Description: Kirklees Mill

Address: Old Corn Mill Wakefield Road Brighouse West Yorkshire HD6 4HA

Grade: II

Group detail: Wakefield Road, Kirklees (south side), Clifton

Full description:
Corn mill. Late C18. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 and a half storeys. Symmetrical north-east front of 5 bays. Central bay has doorway with tie-stones with wooden canopied projection to taking in door over which is central pedimented venetian window. To either side 2 bays of flat faced mullioned windows of 2 lights and 1st 2 floors. Quoins to angles. Return walls have more of the same and venetian window to attics in gables the right hand of which has stack. To rear is outshut to house cast-iron undershot waterwheel. Archway to mill race has incribed keystone 'JULY 27TH 1864' and the waterwheel housing may be contemporary with it. Interior: Much of the grinding gear still survives. Windows have brick springer arches.