Burnley’s Queen Street Mill has made national news by being given Grade I listed building status. The famous Harle Syke mill has the highest listing possible, putting it in the top 2% of all listed buildings. Technically at least, the mill is now on a par with Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey! This should be no surprise. Queen Street is now the only working steam-powered mill in the world and great credit must go to the volunteers and the Burnley and Lancashire Councils for saving the building in the early 1980s and keeping it alive as a museum and visitor attraction.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/dec/25/victorian-queen-street-mill-grade-i-listed-status