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This is a detached engine house dated 1855 and in keeping with a double beam engine. This may have been by J Wood of Sowerby Bridge. The engine probably drove by a geared shaft under the road as 1855 predates electric transmission of power for such purposes. The house later contained a Pollit & Wigzell horizontal tandem compound driving a generator. The lean to on the left is a later engine house that originally had a pitched roof, The open door shows white glazed bricks and a dark mark probably corresponding to a flywheel. There is a large bearing box at the centre of the curved mark. The mill had a variety of engines by Pollit & Wigzell and one by Cole, Marchent and Morley. The house could have held a horizontal single cylinder or tandem compound.