WESTERNHOPE OLD (LEAD) MINE DRESSING FLOOR ON SOUTH BANK OF WEST GRAIN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232444
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: WESTERNHOPE OLD (LEAD) MINE DRESSING FLOOR ON SOUTH BANK OF WEST GRAIN
Statutory Address:: WESTERNHOPE OLD (LEAD) MINE DRESSING FLOOR ON SOUTH BANK OF WEST GRAIN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232444
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: WESTERNHOPE OLD (LEAD) MINE DRESSING FLOOR ON SOUTH BANK OF WEST GRAIN
Statutory Address 1:: WESTERNHOPE OLD (LEAD) MINE DRESSING FLOOR ON SOUTH BANK OF WEST GRAIN

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WESTERNHOPE OLD (LEAD) MINE DRESSING FLOOR ON SOUTH BANK OF WEST GRAIN

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 92027 34552

Details

STANHOPE WESTERNHOPE MOOR NY 93 SW NY 920345 27/294 Westernhope Old (Lead) Mine dressing floor on south bank of West Grain GV II

Lead mine dressing floor. Probably C18. Sandstone rubble in dry construction, and pavement of large flags. Low wall about 10 metres long, with 2-metre-wide pavement alongside.

Historical note: Westernhope lead mines were worked for the Blackett family between the early C18 and 1861.

Listing NGR: NY9202734552

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 407649
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.