Lower Mill
LOWER MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318610
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Mill
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318610
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER 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:
- LOWER MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marrick
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 07938 99463
Details
MARRICK MARRICK SMELTING SE 09 NE MILLS 17/68 Lower Mill (Formerly listed as Marrick Lower 9.12.69 Mill (with flue) GV II Lead smelting mill. Apparently early C19, but may be earlier. Rubble. Main building of rectangular plan, single storey. Quoins and projecting through-stones. Segmental-headed doorway to right. 2 segmental-headed windows in right return. Interior: 2 segmental arches in ashlar sandstone for reverberatory hearths. From these a flue led up to the chimney now forming part of Upper Mill (qv). Bellows room behind the hearths, and wheelchamber for a waterwheel about 7 metres in dia- meter. On the site of a smelting mill described as new in 1592. (Arthur Raistrick, The Lead Industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale, 1975). Disused and in ruins at time of re-survey. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SE0793899463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322006
- 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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