Blisworth Mill, Including Engine Room and Office
BLISWORTH MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE ROOM AND OFFICE, GAYTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252859
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Blisworth Mill, Including Engine Room and Office
- Statutory Address:
- BLISWORTH MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE ROOM AND OFFICE, GAYTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252859
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Blisworth Mill, Including Engine Room and Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLISWORTH MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE ROOM AND OFFICE, GAYTON ROAD
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:
- BLISWORTH MILL, INCLUDING ENGINE ROOM AND OFFICE, GAYTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blisworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 72374 53404
Details
SP 7254 BLISWORTH GAYTON ROAD
10/10001 Blisworth Mill, including Engine Room and Office
GV II
Steam mill. Dated 1879. Orange colour flemish bond brick with blue engineering brick and stone dressings. Welsh slate roof with coped gable ends with moulded stone kneelers and moulded brick eaves cornice. PLAN: Large rectangular mill with east side onto canal, west side facing yard, engine house and chimney on north west corner and office on west side of yard. EXTERIOR: 4 storey attic and basement. 8-bay east elevation facing canal with giant pilasters and saw-tooth segmental arches over top windows, 25 and 20-pane cast-iron windows in segmental arch openings; some blind or blocked. Blocked basement and ground floor doorway at centre. Originally a canopy over ground floor overhanging the canal. Similar west elevation but with truncated chimney and engine house in bays 1,2 and 3, the truncated chimney with later tank on top; the engine house with similar windows, those in end gables with round arches. Similar 3-bay north and south ends, the centre bay rises into gable with round arch to left and right of which are tablets with inscription 'J Westley 1879'. Small single storey office on west side of yard with brick pilastered window bays, the doorway with pediment and C20 porch. INTERIOR: No machinery. Boarded floors and large pine beams supported on cast-iron posts which diminish in size with each ascending storey. Queen-strut roof.
NOTE: Kelly's Directory lists Westley Bros and Clark as millers (steam) SOURCE: Kelly's Directory 1898.
Listing NGR: SP7237453404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Bedfordshire Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire, (1898)
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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