Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority Storeroom

MILLBECK TOWERS COTTAGES AND WATER AUTHORITY STOREROOM

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327197
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority Storeroom
Statutory Address:
MILLBECK TOWERS COTTAGES AND WATER AUTHORITY STOREROOM

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327197
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority Storeroom
Statutory Address 1:
MILLBECK TOWERS COTTAGES AND WATER AUTHORITY STOREROOM

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILLBECK TOWERS COTTAGES AND WATER AUTHORITY STOREROOM

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Underskiddaw
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 25684 26239

Details

NY 22 NE UNDERSKIDDAW MILLBECK

8/118 Millbeck Towers Cottages and Water Authority storeroom

II

Water-powered fulling mill, now 2 houses and storeroom. 1805 with C20 alterations for John Daniel Banks. Roughcast walls under graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. 2-storey, 4-bay store to left with further 2-bay recessed extension; remainder converted to houses of 3 storeys, 2 bays each. Store has plank doors and steps up to loft doorway. Casement windows with glazing bars, some with 30 panes, all in plain reveals. Houses have C20 doors and sash windows in plain reveals; original mill windows on top floor. Rear has similar doors and windows. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, 1vii, pp159-160.

Listing NGR: NY2568426239

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72203
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Sources

Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 57, (), 159-160

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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