Loftus Mill and Millhouse With Mill Race Adjoining.

LOFTUS MILL AND MILLHOUSE WITH MILL RACE ADJOINING., GASKEL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139698
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Loftus Mill and Millhouse With Mill Race Adjoining.
Statutory Address:
LOFTUS MILL AND MILLHOUSE WITH MILL RACE ADJOINING., GASKEL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139698
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Loftus Mill and Millhouse With Mill Race Adjoining.
Statutory Address 1:
LOFTUS MILL AND MILLHOUSE WITH MILL RACE ADJOINING., GASKEL 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOFTUS MILL AND MILLHOUSE WITH MILL RACE ADJOINING., GASKEL LANE

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

District:
Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Loftus
National Grid Reference:
NZ 71936 18123

Details

LOFTUS GASKEL LANE NZ 71 NW (off north side), Loftus 1/12 Loftus Mill and millhouse with mill race adjoining. - II Watermill mid C18, and adjoining late C18 mill house incorporating remains of older house. On site of medieval mill. Left-hand part of mill now part of house. Chevron-tooled dressed sandstone; coursed random drystone retaining wall of race. Renewed clay pantile roofs. 2 storeys, 2 windows to house. Central 6-panel door and narrow overlight with glazing bars. Mid/late C20 segmental-plan bay windows on brackets, on ground floor; 24-pane horizontal sashes with painted sills, on first floor. Mill has 2 doorways with keyed lintels, now holding late C20 casement windows, at left. Similar window on first floor and loft door to right over ground-floor window opening. Retaining wall of race, with flight of eleven steps and stone-lined water channel, adjoins right-hand side of mill; fed mill wheel through opening in first floor. Block kneelers and stack at left end; ridge and gable copings. Blocked fire window in older left return of house, and 2 garret lights in gable. Continuous single-storey outshut adjoins rear of house. Interior: house retains beamed ceilings on ground floor. Machinery removed from left-hand part of mill; right-hand part has some early/mid C19 timber and cast iron machinery and late C19 wheel. Stables and out buildings to rear are not of special interest. Mill house included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ7193618123

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
60163
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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