Brinkburn Mill

BRINKBURN MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041905
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Brinkburn Mill
Statutory Address:
BRINKBURN MILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041905
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Brinkburn Mill
Statutory Address 1:
BRINKBURN MILL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRINKBURN MILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brinkburn
National Grid Reference:
NZ 11729 98298

Details

BRINKBURN BRINKBURN PRIORY NZ 19 NW 10/77 Brinkburn Mill GV II

Mill and attached miller's cottage. Mill probably C18 with re-used medieval masonry, remodelled and cottage added c.1830. Squared stone (except for squared rubble at rear of mill); cut dressings; Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Neo-Tudor style.

East elevation in 2 parts. Mill to left 2 low storeys, 2 bays; central boarded double doors in chamfered surround, with smaller doorway near left end; 2-light recessed and chamfered mullioned windows with lead-latticed casements. Coped left end gable on moulded kneelers; stepped ridge stack. To right, set back slightly, is gable end of taller single-storey cottage with 3-light mullioned window under hoodmould and slit window above; coped gable, with finial, on moulded kneelers. Left return of mill shows external six-spoked iron undershot waterwheel 3.5 metres in diameter. Right return of cottage shows projecting gabled-porch with tall pointed arch, and 4-light window to left. Rear elevation of mill shows two 2-light windows in gabled half dormers; projecting gable end of cottage on left has stepped projecting stack, and 2-light window on right return.

Interior: Stones and some mill machinery in Situ; king-post roof.

Listing NGR: NZ1172998298

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
236746
Legacy System:
LBS

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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