GRINTON SMELTING MILL AND WATERCOURSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1318580
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:: GRINTON SMELTING MILL AND WATERCOURSE
Statutory Address:: GRINTON SMELTING MILL AND WATERCOURSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1318580
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:: GRINTON SMELTING MILL AND WATERCOURSE
Statutory Address 1:: GRINTON SMELTING MILL AND WATERCOURSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GRINTON SMELTING MILL AND WATERCOURSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Grinton
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SE 04877 96425

Details

GRINTON COGDEN MOOR SE 09 NW 16/18 Grinton Smelting Mill and Watercourse 13.2.73 GV II* Disused lead smelting mill. c1820. Rubble with crude quoins, stone slate roof. Single storey, 2 parts forming a T-shape in plan, all under 1 roof. Wider end facing south upstream, has 3 ground floor openings with segmental-arched heads, central doorway and flanking windows. Rear elevation has central doorway with round-arched head. West side has a door to each part, east side has a small opening at a high level for pentrough to waterwheel, and a smaller opening, also the exit from the hearths to the flue, and a doorway at the east end. Interior: in the broader end, remains of 3 smelting hearths, with 2 large king-post roof trusses. Behind, the bellows room and wheelchamber, containing an inserted timber framework which supported a Vaughan's blowing engine, powered by an overshot waterwheel of 6-7 metres diameter. Remains of the pentrough survive. A watercourse, barrel-vaulted in rubble, runs alongside the mill. The present mill is a rebuilding on a very old site. It is the best preserved lead smelting mill in the area. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. Arthur Raistrick, The Lead Industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale, 1975.

Listing NGR: SE0487796425

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Legacy System number:: 321955
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Raistrick, A, The Lead Industry of Swaledale and Wensleydale: The Mines, (1975)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.