Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall
NETHER ALDERLEY MILL AND DAM WALL, CONGLETON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1139592
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NETHER ALDERLEY MILL AND DAM WALL, CONGLETON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1139592
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NETHER ALDERLEY MILL AND DAM WALL, CONGLETON 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:
- NETHER ALDERLEY MILL AND DAM WALL, CONGLETON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Alderley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84340 76239
Details
SJ 87 NW
4/130
NETHER ALDERLEY C.P.
CONGLETON ROAD (East Side)
Nether Alderley Mill and Dam Wall
25/7/1952
GV II*
Water Mill: late C16, machinery of 1850 and 1871, restored 1967-70
for National Trust. Ashlar buff-pink sandstone. Kerridge stone-slate
roof, stone ridge. Rectangular plan with water entering at roof
level. West front has long cat-slide roof with 4 louvred raking
dormers. 3 openings in low wall, with a 4-board door with iron strap
hinges at left approached by 3 stone steps. Both gables have a
herringboned timber truss and in the left side is a rebated 4-light
chamfered stone mullion (one mullion surviving) and in right side a
chamfered stone doorcase.
Interior: On 4 levels through which 2 massive oak posts pass,
supporting arch braced queen post roof trusses, with wind-braced
purlins and ridge. Contains 2 overshot water wheels, one below the
other and the remaining working machinery to drive 2 pairs of French
stones. Attached to south is complex of brick vaulted chambers of
drying kiln, the perforated floor of which is now concreted over.
Immediately behind the mill and joined by the penstock is the ashlar
dam wall, which is contemporary with the mill.
See C Boucher, Nether Alderley Mill, National Trust Guide 1978.
Listing NGR: SJ8434076239
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58297
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
National Trust Guide in Nether Alderley Mill, (1978)
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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