Castle Mill Wheelhouse Block on River Edge
CASTLE MILL WHEELHOUSE BLOCK ON RIVER EDGE, WATERSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293434
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Mill Wheelhouse Block on River Edge
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE MILL WHEELHOUSE BLOCK ON RIVER EDGE, WATERSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293434
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Mill Wheelhouse Block on River Edge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE MILL WHEELHOUSE BLOCK ON RIVER EDGE, WATERSIDE
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:
- CASTLE MILL WHEELHOUSE BLOCK ON RIVER EDGE, WATERSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34756 56820
Details
SE 3456 KNARESBOROUGH WATERSIDE (south side) 8/209 Castle Mill: wheelhouse block on river edge 25.3.83 (formerly listed as Block D under Castle Mills (consisting of blocks A to E)
GV II
Mill building. Late C18 for John Lomas. Ground floor of coursed squared gritstone, red brick above, with Westmorland slate roof. 3 storeys over wheel race, 7 x 3 bays. North facade: ground floor: boarded small-pane sashes in flush wood architraves with stone lintels and projecting stone sills. First and second floors: 25-pane unequally-hung sashes under cambered brick arches. Blocked central opening at second floor. Stone bands at first- and second-floor levels. Similar windows remain in other parts of the building. Hipped roof, no chimneys. Interior: mill race and turbine machinery survives, in poor condition. Ground and upper floors contain original timber work and pulleys and straps remaining from the power system. The interior is in a dangerous condition. Brick outbuildings attached to south-west end include the engine house and stack erected when a steam engine was installed in 1847. A water wheel was erected on this site in 1764 to pump water up the side of the gorge and into the town. A new water wheel was constructed in 1790-91 for John and Charles Lomas when plans were being made to build a cotton mill on the site. B Jennings, Harrogate and Knaresborough, 1970.
Listing NGR: SE3475656820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, (1970)
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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