Mill Cottages

MILL COTTAGES, TOWN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149817
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottages
Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGES, TOWN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149817
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
MILL COTTAGES, TOWN STREET

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGES, TOWN STREET

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill
National Grid Reference:
SE 25565 62428

Details

SE 26 SE BISHOP THORNTON TOWN STREET (south side) Shaw Mills 8/29 Mill Cottages

GV II

Cottages and workshops, now derelict. Late C18 - early C19. Coursed squared gritstone, stone slate roof partly replaced by corrugated asbestos. 2 storeys, 2 cells. Each cell has board door to right on both floors the upper doors reached by wooden stairs. Far left: 24-pane sash in flush wood frame, 8-pane casement above. First-floor door, right, flanked by C19 small-paned workshop windows. Sawn-stone lintels to all openings. Brick stack to left end. Left return: lean-to addition of coursed rubble with pantile roof. Interior: ground floor is below present yard level. The building is derelict. In 1851 the premises were occupied by handloom weavers. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group. Report Number 134, 1974.

Listing NGR: SE2556562428

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
330950
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in Report Number 134, (1973-74)

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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