Bransdale Mill
BRANSDALE MILL, HODGE BECK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149038
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bransdale Mill
- Statutory Address:
- BRANSDALE MILL, HODGE BECK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149038
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bransdale Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRANSDALE MILL, HODGE BECK
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:
- BRANSDALE MILL, HODGE BECK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bransdale
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE6205497926
Details
SE 69 NW
3/24
BRANSDALE
HODGE BECK
SE 69 NW
(east side)
Bransdale Mill
GV
II
Cornmill. C18; extended 1817; partly rebuilt 1842 (on datestone); restored
C20. Extension and rebuilding by William Strickland. Herringbone-tooled
sandstone with pantile roof. 2-storey and attic, single-window front, with
single-storey and attic extension to left. Round-arched doorways of
voussoirs flank 16-pane sash to ground floor of mill; similar window to
centre of first floor. 2 small shuttered openings to attic. Windows have
stone sills and heavy tooled lintels. Lintel to first-floor window is
inscribed: "REBUILT 1842", and is flanked by tie rod ends shaped to form the
initials W and S. Coped gables and coved cornice stack to end left.
Extension has board door with unequal 12-pane replacement sash to left and
shuttered window to right. Small shuttered opening to attic. Shaped sill
to left window probably a reused lintel. Rear: 2 storey, and attic, 3-bay
front, built against the hillside. Central round-arched opening of tooled
voussoirs to first floor. Shuttered openings to attic. Water from millpond
entered wheel chamber through small opening to right of first-floor opening
Powered grindstone installed at rear of mill in late C19 survives. Gable
wall to extension: datestone inscribed: WS 1817.
Interior: wheelchamber to left reuses C18 wheel pit. Surviving cast-iron
machinery comprises an overshot water-wheel with iron buckets, pitwheel,
wallower, spur wheel and crown wheel. 3 stone nuts with wooden teeth and 3
sets of mill stones (without furniture). Banded French stones made by
GEORGE MARIS of HULL in 1842; greystones inscribed "HS NIS 1870"; bluestones
not inscribed. Square section main shaft and hexagonal sack hoist shaft.
In mill extension, wooden framework for an oat crushing mill with one pair
of stones and a sifter. Corn was ground at Bransdale Mill until 1917; grist
was ground until 1953. Mill under restoration by The National Trust at time
of resurvey.
Listing NGR: SE6205497926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328858
- 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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