Old Powder Magazine
OLD POWDER MAGAZINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130838
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Powder Magazine
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POWDER MAGAZINE
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- Date:
- 2004-06-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/12410/27
- Rights:
- © Mr K. Paver. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130838
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Powder Magazine
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POWDER MAGAZINE
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:
- OLD POWDER MAGAZINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arkengarthdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 99863 03429
Details
ARKENGARTHDALE NY 90 SE 9/5 Old Powder Magazine 7.12.66 GV II * Powder magazine, now in agricultural use. c1804. Rubble with flush quoins, stone slate roof. Hexagonal in plan; gabled porch with kneelers projecting from side formerly facing C B smelting mills. Single-storey. One side contains inserted sash window with glazing bars, other sides each contain a blank window with rounded head and projecting keystone. Shaped kneelers, triangular copings to pyramidal main roof, ball finial at apex. Interior: plastered and ceiled, a second doorway formerly in side opposite porch. Built to store the black powder used in the nearby C B lead-mines, established by Charles Bathurst. This unique survival of the great lead-mining industry of Arkengarthdale shows considerable design qualities. Robert T Clough, The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales, 1962; Arthur Raistrick, The Lead Industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale, 1975.
Listing NGR: NY9986303429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321942
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clough, R T, The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales, (1962)
Raistrick, A, The Lead Industry of Swaledale and Wensleydale: The Mines, (1975)
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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