Water Mill on Left Return of Mill Batts Farmhouse
WATER MILL ON LEFT RETURN OF MILL BATTS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186138
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Water Mill on Left Return of Mill Batts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WATER MILL ON LEFT RETURN OF MILL BATTS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186138
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Water Mill on Left Return of Mill Batts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER MILL ON LEFT RETURN OF MILL BATTS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- WATER MILL ON LEFT RETURN OF MILL BATTS FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Burdon
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ3173516683
Details
GREAT BURDON THE GREEN
NZ 31 NW (North side, off)
5/31 Water mill on
left return of
Mill Batts
Farmhouse
II
Corn-grinding mill, formerly water-powered. Late C18-early C19. Dressed
stone plinth; narrow brick in English garden wall bond, 5+1. Ridged concrete
roof tiles on main block, pantiles on lean-to bay; brick chimney stack. 3
storeys, 3 bays with lower lean-to bay on left return. Tall projecting plinth.
Dutch door at right; scattered sashes and casements in altered openings.
Steeply-pitched roof with right end stack. Lean-to bay, with segmental brick
arch over mill race, formerly housed water wheel in ashlar-lined channel.
Interior: mill wheel removed; operative machinery by G. Hauxwell of Durham
dated 1863; 3 pairs of grindstones in wood cases on first floor.
C20 additions on right bay and rear, and farmhouse on right return are not
of special interest. The mill is still in occasional use powered by a
stationary engine.
Listing NGR: NZ3173516683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350393
- 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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