Monument record MWX107 - Upper Cloth and Silk Mill, now Jordan Flats, Lyme Regis

A mill built in the nineteenth century and situated on the eastern bank of the river Lym. The mill is shown on a map from 1841, and described as the new factory of Messrs Glyde, Ensor, Hooke and Gregory. The building is also shown on the first epoch Ordnance Survey map where it is labelled 'Cloth & Silk Mill (Disused)'. The building is now converted into flats.

This 19th century mill is at the bottom of a steep valley, on the eastern bank of a stream. The building is of 3 storeys plus an attic, with 7 bays, it has a central door and a slate roof. The mill has been converted to flats, the fenestration replaced, and the walls rendered. The waterwheel, appears to have been on the east end of the building but little evidence of this remains. To the north-west is a old single storey outbuilding of rubble and brick. <1>

It is marked on an 1841 map of Lyme Regis, where it is labelled both 'New Factory' and 'Cloth Factory' of 'Messrs Glyde, Ensor, Hooke and Gregory' (Wanklyn 1927).

National Record of the Historic Environment, 1305675 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1, Dorset XXXVII.9 Surveyed: 1887, Published: 1889 (Map). SDO10239.

'Cloth & Silk Mill (Disused)'

Wanklyn, C., 1927, Lyme Regis A Retrospect (Monograph). SDO10763.

<1> National Monuments Record, NMR Monument Record (Index). SDO9937.

Record last edited

Sep 22 2025 5:07PM