Mill building at Priory Mill

Priory Mill, Norton Mill Lane, Norton, Doncaster, DN6 9BX

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151465
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: Mill building at Priory Mill
Statutory Address:: Priory Mill, Norton Mill Lane, Norton, Doncaster, DN6 9BX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1151465
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: Mill building at Priory Mill
Statutory Address 1:: Priory Mill, Norton Mill Lane, Norton, Doncaster, DN6 9BX

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: Priory Mill, Norton Mill Lane, Norton, Doncaster, DN6 9BX

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

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Norton
National Grid Reference:: SE 54142 15846

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/05/2020

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NORTON NORTON MILL LANE (north side) Mill building at Priory Mill II Water-powered corn mill. Early C19. Partly roughcast rubble, stone slate eaves courses to pantile roofs. Two storeys with loft, two windows to first floor; attached single-storey wheel-house over mill race to north; much of east and south sides obscured by C20 single-storey additions (not of special interest). South side has door flanked by casements (within later addition) and first-floor windows with flat brick arches. Brick end stack on left.

Rear: wheel-house has central doorway and pitched roof with stone-slate verges. Right return: ashlar arch beneath wheel-house has projecting keystone.

Interior: wheel-house retains a breast-shot, eight-spoke cast-iron wheel (in poor condition at time of resurvey). Main building has a sturdy wooden platform against left gable with gearing beneath and vertical shafts rising to positions for two sets of stones. Sack hoist with double trap doors to each floor. Millstones now set in paving outside.

Listing NGR: SE5414215846

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 334951
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.