PORTAL OF BARRATTS INCLINE

PORTAL OF BARRATTS INCLINE, OLD MOOR LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1166878
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: PORTAL OF BARRATTS INCLINE
Statutory Address:: PORTAL OF BARRATTS INCLINE, OLD MOOR LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1166878
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: PORTAL OF BARRATTS INCLINE
Statutory Address 1:: PORTAL OF BARRATTS INCLINE, OLD MOOR LANE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: PORTAL OF BARRATTS INCLINE, OLD MOOR LANE

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Grassington
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SE 01550 65936

Details

GRASSINGTON OLD MOOR LANE SE 06 NW (east side) Yarnbury 2/29 Portal of Barratt's Incline GV II Tunnel portal. Dated 1828. By Captain Barratt for the Grassington lead mines. Edge-tooled ashlar blocks. A narrow opening approximately 3 metres wide and 3 metres high of well-cut voussoirs with slightly projecting narrower keystone. Projecting band and 3 massive parapet coping stones, the central stone having a smoothly-tooled central panel with the incised date "1828". Captain Barratt was the local agent and engineer supervising the lead mining from 1818, a period when major reorganisation of the mines was taking place. He introduced sophisticated new techniques of ore dressing and invented the forerunner of the mechanical jig. The incline was driven into a 20 fathom network and introduced the use of ponies for drawing the ore out of the mine. The whole scheme was completed in 1833. A. Raistrick, Lead Mining in the Mid Pennines, 1973, plll. J.H. Dickinson, Mines and T'Miners, 1972,p20.

Listing NGR: SE0155065936

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 324782
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dickinson, J H, Mines and Tin Miners, (1972), 20
Raistrick, A, Lead Mining in the Mid Pennines, (1973), 111

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.