Willow Mill
WILLOW MILL, COPY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163985
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Willow Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WILLOW MILL, COPY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163985
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Willow Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLOW MILL, COPY 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.
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:
- WILLOW MILL, COPY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caton-with-Littledale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 52999 64453
Details
SD 56 SW CATON-WITH-LITTLEDALE COPY LANE
5/31 Willow Mill -
- II
Mill, now used as factory and warehouse. Built as corn mill shortly before 1790, extended and converted into cotton mill prior to 1795. Sandstone rubble with asbestos sheet roof replacing stone slate. L-plan. 3 storeys with attic. Earliest part, at east, slightly higher. Against its north wall is a chimney of square plan. To its right are 4 bays having openings with plain stone surrounds. 2 second floor windows are blocked, as are those on the ground floor. To the left of the chimney are openings with plain reveals, mostly blocked: a window remains on both the ground and 1st floors. On the ground floor is a modern door with plain reveals. Adjoining to the right are the larger additions, having openings with plain reveals, many now blocked. On the ground floor all are blocked except for a door at the right adjoining the 2-storey former office extension. On the 1st floor are 5 windows, with a blocked loading door between nos. 4 and 5. On the 2nd floor are 8 windows, 4 blocked. The wing facing west is of 10 bays. On the ground floor 8 windows remain, and a door at the left. On the 1st floor 5 windows remain, with a door in the 2nd bay. On the 2nd floor only the door in the 2nd bay remains. Towards the left, where the 2 roof ridges meet, is an open timber cupola. Interior said to have wooden floors supported by cast iron pillars and wooden beams. Built into the framework of the roof below the ridge there is said to be a long line shaft, used when the building was a bobbin mill, from 1861 until 1973. Price, J.W.A. & Trippier, I, "The Willow Mill, Caton". Contrebis 2, 1974, pp 44-48.
Listing NGR: SD5299964453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Contrebis Bulletin for Archaeology and Local History for Lancs and the Northwest in Contrebis Bulletin for Archaeology and Local History for Lancs and the Northwest, (1974)
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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