Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel
Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel, Dock Walk
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334686
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel
- Statutory Address:
- Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel, Dock Walk
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334686
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel, Dock Walk
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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.
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:
- Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel, Dock Walk
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Chesterfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 37496 70842
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 May 2022 to update text and reformat to current standards
SK 47 SE
13/4
DOCK WALK
Cannon Mill including Mill Wheel
13.3.68.
II
Modern plaque: "This building known as Canon Mill is one of the oldest industrial buildings in Chesterfield and district having been erected prior to 1788. It formed part of the Griffin Foundry of John and Ebenezer Smith and Co. 1775-1833. Restored 1957".
Square red brick building. Pantile roof with slate verges and coped gable end with ornamental cresting. Two storeys. Three blank Gothic arches in eastern facade. Oval cast iron plaque with portrait of cannon with cannon balls and dated 1816. This building was formerly part of a cannon foundry. Large overshot iron water wheel.
Ref. Nixon F p's 128, 129 and 237.
Listing NGR: SK3749670842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83339
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nixon, F, Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire, (1969), 128-9,237
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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