Grove Mill
GROVE MILL, LUMHOLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138938
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Mill
- Statutory Address:
- GROVE MILL, LUMHOLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138938
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROVE MILL, LUMHOLE ROAD
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:
- GROVE MILL, LUMHOLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kettleshulme and Lyme Handley
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98820 80378
Details
SJ 98 SE KETTLESHULME C.P. LUMHOLE ROAD (North Side)
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16/7/1979 Grove Mill (formerly Lumhole Mill)
GV II*
Candlewick Mill: late C18 origins but major rebuilding c.1830 for Shallcross and Sheldon Ltd. with later C19 extensions at either end. Coursed, square, buff, sandstone rubble. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 2 stone chimneys. 3-storey, 9-bay north front to original mill. 9-pane fixed iron windows with plain lintels and sills. Vehicle entrance under steel lintel inserted c.1980. 1-bay beam engine house and lean-to boilerhouse containing Cornish boiler added to left. 2-bays added to right have single storey building in front which contained a hand-fired gas retort; the chimney is in the corner. South front has projecting staircase tower under a gabled roof with loading bays and setting for a clock. A steel channel carries water from the pool to the waterwheel. Interior: Ground and 1st floors fire damaged. Housed at east end is a 26ft. diameter all-iron overshot, waterwheel, which is twinned with a double-action condensing beam engine, by Sherratts of Salford added c.1840. Much of the gearing and drive is intact. There is a spiral stone staircase in the tower.
Considered to be the last example of a mill where water-powered and steam machinery were used together and survive intact.
Listing NGR: SJ9882080378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57991
- 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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