Barn and Attached Mill Approximately 20 Metres South East of Lowna Farmhouse
BARN AND ATTACHED MILL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF LOWNA FARMHOUSE, LOWNA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316012
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Mill Approximately 20 Metres South East of Lowna Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ATTACHED MILL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF LOWNA FARMHOUSE, LOWNA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316012
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Mill Approximately 20 Metres South East of Lowna Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND ATTACHED MILL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF LOWNA FARMHOUSE, LOWNA ROAD
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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:
- BARN AND ATTACHED MILL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF LOWNA FARMHOUSE, LOWNA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gillamoor
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 68735 90977
Details
GILLAMOOR LOWNA ROAD SE 69 SE (north side) 6/66 Barn and attached mill approximately 20 metres south-east of Lowna Farmhouse GV II Barn and loose boxes with loft over; mill attached to rear. Mill of 1803 with earlier origins; extended c1840. Barn c1840. For Thomas Baxter. Squared limestone with quoins; pantile and corrugated asbestos roof. Barn range rectangular on plan, with bridge-type mill at right angles to rear. Barn: 2-storey, 5-bay front. 2 stable doors on each side of a shuttered square opening. Loft openings are square with board shutters to centre and end right. All openings are rebated and have heavy tooled lintels. Left gable end: flight of stone steps with board door below leads to loft door. Diamond-shaped compass to gable apex with weather-vane in the form of a female figure above. Mill: 1½-storey, 3-bay front, enclosed behind later building. Board door to left and blocked doorway and window to right: 2 pitching windows to loft. Timber lintels to all openings. Interior: machinery now dismantled but pit survives for high breast undershot wheel. The mill was originally a cornmill until acquired by Thomas Baxter in 1801. Thereafter it was used also for pumping the water required for operating the Baxters' tannery which existed until 1914. An oak bark hoist and crusher, bone-crushing machinery and a woodsaw were all powered by the mill. J T Capron, "Lowna Mill, Gillmoor", The Ryedale Historian; 3 (1967), pp 42-44.
Listing NGR: SE6873590977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328901
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Ryedale Historian, (1967), 42-44
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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