Abbey Corn Mill
ABBEY CORN MILL, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072049
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Corn Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY CORN MILL, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072049
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Corn Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY CORN MILL, KING STREET
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:
- ABBEY CORN MILL, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whalley
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 73288 36007
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
WHALLEY KING STREET SD 73 NW 2/82 Abbey Corn Mill GV II Former corn mill and associated buildings. Erected 1837 by John Taylor of Moreton Hall. Coursed rubble; Welsh and local slate gable end roofs. 4-storey mill with lean-to water-wheel house to north: 2 storey cottages and ancillary buildings to east and west. The mill has quoining to all angles, but the cottage range detail- ing suggests that it is roughly coeval. Mill building, 3 window range (towards access street), the centre with openings with projecting surrounds (some concealed by later hoist case in timber), side windows with sills and lintels and renewed casements. Wheel-house retains its undershot water wheel, under brick vaulted ceiling. Lower range to east, 2 storeys under 2 roof levels, but all of one date. Unit adjacent to mill with elliptically- headed cart entrance to right and loading opening above, 2 closely set 4-pane horned sashes, another window with renewed casement, and a doorway, all with projecting surrounds; 2 1st floor openings. Three units under lower roof line, one a store (2 doorways and a simple 1st floor opening), another an office (formerly a cottage) with 2 1st floor and 1 ground floor sash in projecting window surrounds, and a C20 window; the third unit a cottage fronting King Street: here a 2 window range with horned sashes (one re- placed) and a half-glazed C20 door. Mill interior: wooden floors supported by iron columns with circular section. The mill and cottages form an interesting group within an important Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: SD7328836007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183569
- 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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