Woodfield Mill
WOODFIELD MILL, COLBER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189786
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Woodfield Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WOODFIELD MILL, COLBER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189786
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Woodfield Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODFIELD MILL, COLBER 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:
- WOODFIELD MILL, COLBER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 23582 63404
Details
SW BISHOP THORNTON COLBER LANE (west end, off) 7/19 Woodfield Mill
- II
Water mill, now disused. Late C18, rebuilt 1831. Coursed squared gritstone with smoother gritstone to sills and lintels. Graduated stone slate roof. 3-storey main block, with 4 first-floor openings, one blocked. 2-storey wheel-house of dressed gritstone with pantile roof attached to right. Main block: board stable door with 9-pane window to left, window blocked with rubble and a 9-pane window to right. Loading door above entrance with wooden supports for loading platform. Fenestration as ground floor. Second storey: a shorter 9-pane window to each bay, that to bay 3 blocked with brick. All windows have the top 3 panes hinged. End stacks. Wheelhouse: wide round-arched opening with well cut voussoirs, board door above. Lean-to addition to right not of special interest. Rear: upper 2 storeys only are visible as the building is built into the steep slope which forms one side of the mill pond. 9-pane windows to both floors. Left return: lean-to open-sided shed covers the gable-end of the building which contains a blocked doorway and fireplace with the initials J R carved on the mantle stone. Right return: the wheel-pit and wheel-house are incorporated into the gable end, with a further corrugated-iron shed with sloping roof built against the east side. Wheel-house has ashlar gable coping and inturned kneelers. The rear section of the roof has collapsed. The wheel does not survive, but there is some machinery remaining. In 1805 Samuel Gratton probably had a mill on this site, with 6 flax-spinning frames. In 1831 the mill was rebuilt and continued in use for flax-spinning as well as containing 3 pairs of grindstones. The wheel (breast- or over-shot) was 40 feet in diameter. The mill remained in use into the C20, a turbine having replaced the wheel at about that time. The mill-race, pond and sluices remain to the north and west of the building. Two other buildings on the site were probably a smithy and a warehouse and granary. B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale, 1983, pp 210 and 217.
Listing NGR: SE2358263404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330940
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Nidderdale, (1983), 210, 217
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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