Balk Mill
BALK MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315143
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Balk Mill
- Statutory Address:
- BALK MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315143
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Balk Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALK 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:
- BALK MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Balk
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 47496 80803
Details
BALK SE 48 SE 6/1 BALK MILL GV II
Flax mill now undergoing conversion. late C18 - early C19. Pinkish brick in English garden wall bond, pantile roof. Gable end to road; 3 storeys with loft, 3 x 5 bays. Windows are segmental-headed with brick arches and stone cills. Roadside (north) gable: lowest floor is below ground level; next floor has steps up to board door in flush wood surround on right; above it is a blind window, and in gable paired blind round-arched windows ends of several tie rods. South gable: on ground floor a door to left and another wide inserted doorway on right; to the centre of the ground and 1st floors a tall, blocked, round-arched light, and another to 2nd floor; a window to either side on 1st and 2nd floors; paired-round-arched gable windows;; ends of several tie rods. Returns: windows now have 1987 glazing, 2 on the ground floor of left return now doorways; ends of iron tie rods; stone blocks which provide internal seatings for the cross beams. Interior: cross beams supported on rectangular timber posts; wide floor boards; collared queen-post roof trusses with angle struts. A map of 1753 depicts a mill on or near the site, but unlikely to have been this mill on architectural ground. Before its present use the mill acted as a grinding mill. The mill wheel was on the north gable. North Yorkshire Archives, Document ZDS IV/1/1/1, Box 657, Field Book of Danby, Sessary and Conicle 1753, (Map facing P.18).
Listing NGR: SE4749680803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332528
- 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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