The Corn Mill
THE CORN MILL, BURNLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072722
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Corn Mill
- Statutory Address:
- THE CORN MILL, BURNLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072722
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Corn Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CORN MILL, BURNLEY ROAD
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:
- THE CORN MILL, BURNLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Hyndburn (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Altham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 77502 32996
Details
ALTHAM Off BURNLEY ROAD SD 73 SE 3/45 The Corn Mill 9.7.1975 G.V. II
Former water mill, dated 1816, with extension (now under conversion as dwellings). Coursed sandstone, stone slate roof on 2 levels with chimneys at left gable and on gable at junction. Single pile plan, roughly L-shaped with outshut to front of left end and projecting double-pile extension at right end. Built into slope above river: 3 storeys to front, 4 at rear. In centre at 2nd floor level is shouldered stone plaque lettered "Erected BY E. TOPHAM Esquire 1816" Various square window openings and doors to front and rear, including 3-tier warehouse doors in front of extension. At left end is low boiler house and a tapering cylindrical stone chimney with moulded collar and cap. History: used as corn mill to mid-C19, subsequently various other functions including ice works, wheelwright's shop, and 1906-47 manufacture of heald staves (Ainsworth Altham and Huncoat pp. 142-45).
Listing NGR: SD7750232996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183848
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 142-145
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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