MIDDLE LEVEL LEAD MINE WATER RACE AND STEPS AND RETAINING WALL AT DRESSING FLOOR

MIDDLE LEVEL LEAD MINE WATER RACE AND STEPS AND RETAINING WALL AT DRESSING FLOOR, GREENLAWS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231496
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: MIDDLE LEVEL LEAD MINE WATER RACE AND STEPS AND RETAINING WALL AT DRESSING FLOOR
Statutory Address:: MIDDLE LEVEL LEAD MINE WATER RACE AND STEPS AND RETAINING WALL AT DRESSING FLOOR, GREENLAWS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231496
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: MIDDLE LEVEL LEAD MINE WATER RACE AND STEPS AND RETAINING WALL AT DRESSING FLOOR
Statutory Address 1:: MIDDLE LEVEL LEAD MINE WATER RACE AND STEPS AND RETAINING WALL AT DRESSING FLOOR, GREENLAWS

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: MIDDLE LEVEL LEAD MINE WATER RACE AND STEPS AND RETAINING WALL AT DRESSING FLOOR, GREENLAWS

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stanhope
National Grid Reference:: NY 88955 36998

Details

STANHOPE GREENLAWS NY 83 NE NY 88 Daddry Shield 18/214 (inset) Middle Level Lead Mine water race and steps andr retaining wall at dressing floor GV II

Retaining wall with steps and water-race arch; water race walls. Circa 1868 for Blackett-Beaumont Lead Mining Company. Coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Wall about 4 metres high and 12 metres long, with flight of stone steps recessed in bank at left end; elliptical arch with voussoirs over water-race. Retaining walls about 1½ metres high and 10 metres long contain water-race.

Listing NGR: NY8895536998

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Legacy System number:: 406647
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.