Wash Pit Mill
WASH PIT MILL, CHOPPARDS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134754
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Wash Pit Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WASH PIT MILL, CHOPPARDS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134754
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wash Pit Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WASH PIT MILL, CHOPPARDS 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.
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:
- WASH PIT MILL, CHOPPARDS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Holme Valley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1423306670
Details
SE 10 NW
4/10000
Choppards,
CHOPPARDS LANE,
Wash Pit Mill
(Formerly listed as Wash Pit Mill, CHOPPARDS LANE, Wooldale)
04/11/91
II
Textile Mill c1840. Hammer dressed stone, stone slate roof. 4 1/2
storeys. 5-bay gable fronted, 7 bay returns. All windows have
thin ashlar flush sills and lintels, 6 paned timber glazing, top
casement. Coped gable with kneelers, west gable has chimney.
Arched window in gable apex. Outer bay windows of attic storey
have window lintels aligned to the roof pitch, an unusual
feature. Taking-in door in 5 bay to first 3 floors only. Custom
glazed rooflights set close to ridge, 3 each side.
Interior: timber floored with joists and spine beams supported
by cast iron columns with ring caps. Stone cantilevered semi-
spiral stair rises to attic on north side, lit by small lunette
at attic level. 7 bay softwood fish-bone king-post roof with tie-
beam at collar level. Principal rafters support 5 purlins each
side and are morticed into main spine beam which acts as lower
tie-beam and supports attic floor. Built off the floor at eaves
edge are unusual tumbled wedges which support vertical post to
principal with notched joint. The wedges are bolted through to
the spine-beam/tie-beam.
Listing NGR: SE1423306670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340676
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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