Dewhurst's Mill

DEWHURST'S MILL, BROUGHTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180038
Date first listed:
02-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:
Dewhurst's Mill
Statutory Address:
DEWHURST'S MILL, BROUGHTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180038
Date first listed:
02-Mar-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
07-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Dewhurst's Mill
Statutory Address 1:
DEWHURST'S MILL, BROUGHTON ROAD

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:
DEWHURST'S MILL, BROUGHTON ROAD

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Skipton
National Grid Reference:
SD 98526 51511

Details

1. 5336 BROUGHTON ROAD

SD 9851 1/163 (North side)

II Western Block of Dewhirst's Mill The address and the map reference shall be amended to read:

SD 95 SE BROUGHTON ROAD SP/194 (North side)

Dewhurst's Mill The description shall be amended to read:

Mill for the spinning and weaving of cotton and the manufacture of sewing thread. 1867-70. Coursed stone with rusticated quoins, hipped slate and glazed skylight roofs on bracketed eaves. Massive grouping of main rectangular western block with detached brick chimney to rear, U-shaped eastern range linked to third mill with canted west end across Brewery Lane by inclined cast iron bridges with enriched round-headed glazing. Main block 20x8 bays, 5 storeys glazed with 4-pane casement windows in plain square frames. Dentilled string courses at sill levels of 1st and 3rd storeys. Main entrance to east has rusticated pyramid capped gate piers. shaped eastern range has 5 storey 5-bay gable ends facing Broughton Road with 3 round-headed windows in gable apex; 10x15 bay elevations to courtyard of 5 storeys with later asymmetrical additions. 3rd mill to east of Brewery Lane of 4 storeys, 7 bays and water tower in north west corner with bracketed cornice. North-east water tower to western block has hipped roof and iron belvedere with bracketed cornice. The whole complex forms a group.

------------------------------------ 1. 5336 BROUGHTON ROAD (North Side) Western block of Dewhirst's Mill SD 9851 1/163

II

2. Late Victorian. Stone, rusticated quoins, hipped slate roof, eaves on brackets. 5 storeys. Long western block has 20 windows on each floor facing the road, and 6 windows on return end. Dentilled strings at sill level of 1st and 3rd floors.

Listing NGR: SD9852651511

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
323426
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.

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