Bate Mill (disused watermill)

Bate Mill (disused watermill), Batemill Lane

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139310
Date first listed:
28-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Bate Mill (disused watermill)
Statutory Address:
Bate Mill (disused watermill), Batemill Lane
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139310
Date first listed:
28-Nov-1984
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Bate Mill (disused watermill)
Statutory Address 1:
Bate Mill (disused watermill), Batemill Lane

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Bate Mill (disused watermill), Batemill Lane

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Peover Superior and Snelson
National Grid Reference:
SJ 80079 72402

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancment on 25/06/2019

SJ 87 SW
6/52

PEOVER SUPERIOR C.P.
BATEMILL LANE
Bate Mill (disused watermill)

(formerly listed under CINDER LANE, previously listed as Bate Mill)

GV
II
Water mill. C18 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. English garden wall bond brick with stone slate roof. Two storeys.

Road front: two pilaster buttresses dividing the front into three bays, the two bays to left and the buttresses being of late C19 or C20 brick with three stretcher courses between header course, that to right of late C18 or early C19 brick with four, five and six stretcher courses between header courses. Openings to mill leat in (from left) bays 1 and 2 with timber and stone lintels and vertical iron bars to right-hand opening. One segmental-arched three-light casement window at ground floor in bay 2, with flat-headed similar windows at first floor in bays 1 and 2.

Right hand gable end: segmental-arched double door to ground floor with loft above (blocked window adjacent to timber door) and pulley to gable apex. Left hand gable end: staircase abutting with stone treads leading to first floor doorway with stone lintel, hinge and latch dressings and C20 half-glazed door. Ground floor doorway to left of stair with stone lintel. Projecting verges with bargeboards to both gables

Rear: central outshot under catslide roof, with stone base and ground floor window. First floor three-light window to left above corrugated-iron lean-to in angle. To the right, three stone leat channels with segmental-arched heads, and short stone walls to tail race.

Interior: not inspected but iron-framed waterwheel visible through leat openings.

Listing NGR: SJ8007972402

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
59092
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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