The site of a modern watermill. The Ordnance Survey First edition mapping of 1869 shows a mill race leading to an unmarked structure at this location.  


The building began life as a flour mill in the 1850s, operated by a proprietor named Moughtin.  A Lancashire silk weaver, Egbert Rydings invested in the mill in the early 1880s together with prominent artist and philanthropist John Ruskin's Guild of St George, converting and extending the building to provide space for carding, dyeing, spinning and weaving. Additional buildings were progressively constructed on a 90 metre frontage of land along the Laxey River and Glen Road providing outhouses and drying sheds. The mill was subsequently operated by a succession of owners and managers, using a range of powered machinery, before converting to the handlooms in use today.


The mill complex was served by water drawn from a weir 140 metres upstream along a mill race.  Water would once have been augmented by water recycled or returned to the river from the washing floors.  A short tail race returned water to the river immediately downstream.