English: 25 Mountain Street in Glen Williams, Ontario, Canada. This lot on the south side of Mountain Street sits on the edge of an embankment overlooking the Credit River and the former site of Jacob William's woollen mills.

Known locally as Barraclough House, it was actually built for John Sykes in 1901 after the woollen mills business, started by the Williams family in the 1839, had been taken over by the Sykes and Ainley Manufacturing Company. When the mills were reorganised in 1907 as the Glen Woollen Mills Company, most of the partners of this company lived in England, with H. P. Lawson of Georgetown, the Vice-President, and E. Y. Barraclough, as Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager, as the only Canadian directors. Ernest Y. Barraclough (1874-1936) as general manager lived in the house with his wife Ida. The house and lot were severed from the Woollen Mills Company when Barraclough died in 1936.

The mill processed wool from when it left the sheep's back until it was ready for the loom or knitting machine. The looms wove grey blankets, robe linings, fancy buggy rugs, wool horse blankets, kersey, a coarse narrow cloth, woven from the long wool and usually ribbed, and collar check, as well as carpet and knitting yarns.

The house is an unusual example of Edwardian style of architecture including a unique stain glass window

Lucy Maude Montgomery, or Maud Macdonald as she was also known in Ontario, loved the house at 25 Mountain Street in Glen Williams, Ontario, owned by Ernest and Ida Barraclough.

The Barracloughs, a power-couple of Union Presbyterian Church, hosted the Macdonalds – Maud, Ewan and Stuart – for a few nights at their gracious home before the family moved into their new manse in Norval. Union and Norval Presbyterian Churches and the manse were part of the two-point charge to which Rev. Ewan Macdonald had been called.

Ida became one of Maud’s close friends in the parish.

On July 2, 1927, Maud noted in her journal, “That house has, somehow, an agreeable personality.” The Selected Journals of LM Montgomery, Volume III: 1921-1929. Edited by Mary Rubio & Elizabeth Waterston. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pg 339.