Gayle Mill
Gayle Mill
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132000
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Gayle Mill
- Statutory Address:
- Gayle Mill
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1132000
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Gayle Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gayle Mill
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:
- Gayle Mill
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawes
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 87116 89382
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SD 88 NE
20/121
HAWES
GAYLE
Gayle Mill
25.3.69
GV
II*
Cotton mill, now saw mill. c1784. Rubble, stone slate roof. Three storeys, six bays. Quoins. In bay three, leaved board doors under deep timber lintel, with small wheels set in floor for movement of timber onto saw-bench inside. Original 16-pane fixed-light windows mostly replaced by eight-pane windows. Stack at end left, former bellcote at end right.
Rear elevation: blocked tail-race opening from wheelchamber in corner near stream with round arch of rubble voussoirs and hood-mould; regular pattern of windows. Right return: blocked doorway formerly giving access to axle of waterwheel in centre of ground floor. Left return: first-floor end entry with leaved board doors.
Interior: two workable water turbines by Williamson of Kendal. The mill was switched to spinning wool for the local knitting industry in the late C18, and was converted to a saw mill in the C19. The overshot waterwheel was replaced by turbines in the late C19. From 1919 - 1948 the turbines supplied electric light for the village.
James Alderson, Under Wetherfell (1980), pp 132-3.
Listing NGR: SD8711689382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alderson, J, Under Wetherfell, (1980), 132-3
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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