Old Lane Mill

OLD LANE MILL, STATION ROAD WIGTON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327150
Date first listed:
01-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Old Lane Mill
Statutory Address:
OLD LANE MILL, STATION ROAD WIGTON
Old Lane Mill, Wigton
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327150
Date first listed:
01-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Old Lane Mill
Statutory Address 1:
OLD LANE MILL, STATION ROAD WIGTON

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD LANE MILL, STATION ROAD WIGTON

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wigton
National Grid Reference:
NY 25392 48866

Details

NY 2548 WIGTON STATION ROAD (East side) Wigton

14/95 Old Lane Mill 1/4/67 (formerly listed as Old Windmill) II

Windmill now scout hut. Late C18 with C19 additions. Random red sandstone rubble under Welsh slate roof. 5-storey tapering circular tower without sails; 3-storey rectangular steam-mill extension. Tower has C20 plank doors and small square windows at various levels. Extension has large cart entrance with C20 plank door; upper floor lofts and side windows have been blocked with brick. Walls raised in height with brick. Base of a square sandstone chimney to left. Original machinery removed in the early 1970's, but internal floors remain. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lxxii, p133.

Listing NGR: NY2539248866

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72050
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Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 22, (), 133

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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