Grinton Smelting Mill and Watercourse
GRINTON SMELTING MILL AND WATERCOURSE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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