Scholes Mill
SCHOLES MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248492
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Scholes Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOLES MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248492
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Scholes Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOLES 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:
- SCHOLES MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tansley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 31833 59925
Details
The following item shall be added: 1. TANSLEY
1390 Scholes Mill
SK 35 NW 7/171 II
2. Former cotton spinning mill (later used for the manufacture of red tape, and at time of inspection in April 1990 used for storage), with manager's house attached. Built 1797 for Samuel Unwin. Coursed gritstone rubble; Welsh Slate roof. Some later brick ancillary buildings. Plan: the wheel appears to have been set transversely partly within the mill building and contained within stone cross walls (which are not continued above ground level) with associated gear placed within low outshuts. Mill: 3 storeys, 16 window range almost identical to both sides, all windows under flat lintels with stone sills, and 30- pane cast iron window frames with small central opening. Left-hand stone end stack (for heating) with a tall brick end stack to right abutting the end wall (for engine house, dismantled, which replaced the water-powered system in later C19). Later skylight. Manager's house attached to left: 2½ storeys, 4 window range. Ground-floor with 2 tripartite sash windows and doorway (with rectangular overlight) in stone surrounds, the latter with panelled door. Larger entrance to right (opposed to rear) under elliptical arch. 1st floor with 4 widows, 2 tripartite, all with sashes. Upper half-storey with flat headed sash windows. Rear similar, but more of the sashes replaced. Interior: of mill, intact (except for machinery); power rise to all floors except attic. King post roof with angle struts. House, modest, with some contemporary features.
Listing NGR: SK3183359925
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430118
- 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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