Abbey Mill
ABBEY MILL, FOUNTAINS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173325
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY MILL, FOUNTAINS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173325
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY MILL, FOUNTAINS 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:
- ABBEY MILL, FOUNTAINS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 27256 68193
Details
SE 2768 LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY FOUNTAINS LANE ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS (east side, off)
9/37 Abbey Mill
GV I
Watermill, now stores and workshops. Mid C12, remodelled late C12 and again early C13; altered post 1539 and C19. Gritstone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays, with lower 2-storey, 2-bay addition to north. East side: C12 round-arched doorway first floor left, later arched openings to ground floor. Paired lancet windows first and second floors. 4 stepped buttresses. Corniced ridge stack to right of bay 2. Rear (west side): 2 upper storeys above ground level. Far right: round chamfered arched doorway; windows as east side. Attached brick wheelhouse bay 4, C19 machinery intact. Wooden cover and sluice gate bay 2. Left return: external steps to narrow chamfered round-arched doorway first floor; paired window to right. 2 square-headed windows ground floor, and one in gable. Right return: square-headed doorway centre; blocked first-floor entrance. Interior: C19 and C20 flooring. The mill was fed by a leat from the River Skell near the west wall of the precinct which widened into a mill pond with a dam against the west wall of the building. 2 waterwheels were in use, serving 2 cornmills and later other processes. The north end, possibly housing waterwheels, was demolished after the dissolution of Fountains Abbey (qv) in 1539 and was replaced by the lower-roofed block. The mill continued in use until the early C20. A Scheduled Ancient Monument. R Gilyard-Beer, Fountains Abbey, 1977, p 75.
Listing NGR: SE2725868197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331039
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gilyard-Beer, R, Fountains Abbey, (1970), 75
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,
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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