Catherine Mill
CATHERINE MILL, CATHERINE STREET, CA28 7QT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1038943
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Catherine Mill
- Statutory Address:
- CATHERINE MILL, CATHERINE STREET, CA28 7QT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1038943
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Catherine Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHERINE MILL, CATHERINE STREET, CA28 7QT
- Statutory Address 2:
- CATHERINE MILL, CATHERINE STREET, CA28 7QT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CATHERINE MILL, CATHERINE STREET, CA28 7QT
- Statutory Address:
- CATHERINE MILL, CATHERINE STREET, CA28 7QT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitehaven
- National Grid Reference:
- NX 97364 17813
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/02/2017
NX 9717 NW,
4/12
WHITEHAVEN,
CATHERINE STREET,
Catherine Mill
(Formerly Listed as: Barracks Mill)
(Previously listed as: Factory building of Dobson & Musgrave, II; and, Factory Building of Dobson & Musgrave, II*)
II*
Former fireproof flax mill (empty at time of inspection, August 1989; noted converted to flats, Jun. 2016). 1809 (dated rainwater heads and documentary evidence). Coursed limestone; renewed concrete pantiled gable-end roofs. Long range with centrally-placed engine house, possibly the first mill building to have its engine house so positioned and marking an important stage in the development of the textile mill. Four storeys. Seven window bays to either side of slightly projecting pedimented central wing (which contains the engine house), including two loading bays asymmetrically placed. All windows under segmental arches with keystones; renewed casements with glazing bars. Some ground-floor window openings altered. Central doorway (double doors with recessed panels), the pedimented wing with one central window to each floor. Moulded stone cornice. End walls with stone coping and external stack; left-hand return rendered with three windows, the openings narrowed in brick; right return with two windows to each floor treated as to front, those to the left
lengthened to form loading bays. 4th floor window set within stack. Blocked
circular privy windows, two to each floor. Rear, the engine house projecting one
window bay with tall tapering external stack, renewed top course of shaft in
brick. Windows as to front, several altered. INTERIOR: central rank of paired
iron columns. Quatrefoil in section, with lugs for line shafting. Cast-iron
queen-strut roof. Transverse arches below windows to equalise load.
This mill is of national importance. It appears to be the earliest mill to contain a
central engine house which was more economical in driving long line shafts. It
is also one of the half dozen or so earliest surviving fire-proofed mills.
Plan, section and brief discussion in K Falconer and R Thorne's, 'Industrial
Archaeology and the RCHME; Industries Archaeology Review (1986), 29-30.
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Previous listing:
CATHERINE STREET
1.
1814
Factory building of
Dobson & Musgrave
NX 9717 NW 4/12
II
2.
Large, long rectangular building in stone, 4 storeys high, with new
roof. 17 windows on each floor, with pediment over the middle 3, all
windows with segmental heads. Square tapering chimney in centre of
pediment on West side, and lower gabled wing in centre. Once a
barracks, but said to have been built between 1811 and 1829 as a linen
mill.
Listing NGR: NX9736417813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75904
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Industrial Archaeology Review in Industrial Archaeology Review, (1986), 29-30
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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