Nibthwaite Mill
NIBTHWAITE MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1225382
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nibthwaite Mill
- Statutory Address:
- NIBTHWAITE MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1225382
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nibthwaite Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- NIBTHWAITE MILL
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:
- NIBTHWAITE MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Colton
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 29464 88292
Details
COLTON NIBTHWAITE SD 28 NE 5/59 Nibthwaite Mill
II*
Bobbin mill incorporating remains of iron furnace, now house. Furnace 1735, bobbin mill c.1840. Stone rubble with slate roofs. 2 storeys with basement, 6 bays. East elevation has lean-to outshut to ground-floor, with gabled wing, now garage. Windows have slated lintels and C20 small-paned casements; entrance with glazed door to return of outshut. Gable-end stack. North gable end has gabled porch; south gable end has window. West elevation has north end built against slope of ground, south end has older, slightly battered wall to former furnace, with dripcourse over, sloping up to left. Basement has segmental-headed entrance. Windows have C20 casements. Small attached building to south projects to west, with later extension alongside south gable end. Interior: basement has remains of furnace with large splayed arched openings to adjoining sides, one with iron lintel with: "N 1736". Adjoining bay has large segmental arch and timber base to bellows. An important survival of the Furness iron industry in a survival of the later bobbin industry, the building is a scheduled ancient monument along with the nearby mill race and wheel pit
Listing NGR: SD2946488292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421732
- 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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