ENGINE HOUSE NORTONTHORPE MILLS

ENGINE HOUSE NORTONTHORPE MILLS, CUTTLEHURST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116680
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE NORTONTHORPE MILLS
Statutory Address:: ENGINE HOUSE NORTONTHORPE MILLS, CUTTLEHURST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116680
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: ENGINE HOUSE NORTONTHORPE MILLS
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINE HOUSE NORTONTHORPE MILLS, CUTTLEHURST

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ENGINE HOUSE NORTONTHORPE MILLS, CUTTLEHURST

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

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Denby Dale
National Grid Reference:: SE2465310044

Details

The following buildings shall be added:- SE21SW 554-/1/10003

DENBY DALE CUTTLEHURST, Scisset (East side) Engine House Nortonthorpe Mills

GV II

Engine house. 1885-6. Built for Norton & Co Ltd. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof with 2 circular metal ventilators and bracketed eaves with wooden guttering. Single storey. 5 windows. Main south-west facade has 5 large round headed openings with ashlar hoods, keystones and linking impost band. The central opening has a single glazed door with side lights, all these openings have renewed C20 glazing. A single similar round headed to the south-east. Interior. Retains its original 1885 Pollitt & Wigzell steam engine. It is of a unique 3 piston rod tandem, compound condensing design made solely by Pollitt & Wigzell, and this is the only known surviving long stroke example. It was originally named Empress, but after being overhauled in 1906 it was re-named Violet after the birth of the owner, G H Norton's daughter.

Listing NGR: SE2465310044

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Legacy System number:: 442903
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.