Listed Building: WEIR AND BRIDGE BY WAYSIDE COTTAGE (1138915)

SJ 97 NW RAINOW C.P. HOUGH HOLE 2/126 Weir and bridge by Wayside Cottage II Weir and bridge: c.1800 for James Mellor snr. Coursed squared buff sandstone rubble with hammer-dressed copings. A weir of 14 stone steps is flanked by revetment walls that curve round at the top towards the pool. At the foot of the weir they are joined to a bridge of 2 segmental rubble arches with projecting rubble courses above, standing on rectangular piers. There are plain parapets with flat copings. At the south-west corner, the parapet continues and curves to contain a solid rectangular stone trough with 2 basins cut out of it. This belongs to the now demolished Hough-hole cotton-spinning mill, which was in the garden of Wayside Cottage. Listing NGR: SJ9439576452