Peat Store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill
PEAT STORE OF KELDHEADS LEAD SMELTING MILL, KELDHEADS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130869
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Peat Store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill
- Statutory Address:
- PEAT STORE OF KELDHEADS LEAD SMELTING MILL, KELDHEADS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130869
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Peat Store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEAT STORE OF KELDHEADS LEAD SMELTING MILL, KELDHEADS LANE
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.
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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:
- PEAT STORE OF KELDHEADS LEAD SMELTING MILL, KELDHEADS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston-under-Scar
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 07792 90972
Details
SE 09 SE PRESTON-UNDER-SCAR KELDHEADS LANE (west side)
6/59 Peat Store of Keldheads 6/1/70 Lead Smelting Mill (Formerly listed as Keldheads Mill (former peat store))
- II
Peat store, now hay barn. Mid C19. Rubble, corrugated sheet roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Quoins. On ground floor, 4 cart openings, with semi- circular arches of rubble voussoirs. Plain openings above. The peat store is the only substantially complete building of the Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill, built c1840 and extended in 1855, which replaced an earlier mill near Preston corn mill. In 1855 the smelting mill flue, now collapsed, was extended to a length of about two miles, terminating near Cobscar Lead Smelting Mill in the parish of Redmire (q.v.). The mill ceased to function c1888. The Keldheads Mines were near Preston Mill, in the parish of Wensley (q.v.). Arthur Raistrick, The Lead Industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale, vol.2, "The Smelting Mills" (1975) pp. 101-4.
Listing NGR: SE0779290972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raistrick, A, The Lead Industry of Swaledale and Wensleydale: The Mines, (1975), 101-4
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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