DEBDON SAWMILL AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH WEST

DEBDON SAWMILL AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH WEST, B6341

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1371031
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: DEBDON SAWMILL AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH WEST
Statutory Address:: DEBDON SAWMILL AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH WEST, B6341

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1371031
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: DEBDON SAWMILL AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH WEST
Statutory Address 1:: DEBDON SAWMILL AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH WEST, B6341

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: DEBDON SAWMILL AND ATTACHED WALL TO SOUTH WEST, B6341

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rothbury
National Grid Reference:: NU 06494 02812

Details

CARTINGTON B 6341 NU 0602 NU 065028 (West side, off) 23/2 Debdon Sawmill and attached wall to south-west II*

Powerhouse and sawmill, third quarter of C19. Snecked rock-faced stone with some cut dressings; red clay tile roof. H-plan, single-storeyed except for west part of south wing. West elevation in 3 parts; gable end of north wing on left has 3-light mullioned window above round arch for head goit; recessed centre has doorway and blocked window; gable end of south wing on right has boarded door under timber lintel, with 2-light mullioned window above; on left return is altered 3-light window with 2 cross windows above. To far right is attached retaining wall for approach ramp on south, with heavy flat coping stepping down to right. South elevation in 2 parts: left part has boarded double doors in shouldered arch with timber lintel, under gablet with shaped loop; stepped-and-banded ridge stack to right: lower right part largely concealed by approach ramp.

Interior: In north wing is Thompson double vortex turbine by Williamsons of Kendal (with maker's plate).

Historical Note: In 1881 Lord Armstrong coupled the turbine to a Siemens horizontal generator to produce the first hydro-electric power source in the world; this lit the first arc lamps in Armstrong's museum at Cragside, and later Joseph Swan's newly-invented incandescent lamps.

Listed and graded for historic importance.

Adjacent sheds with corrugated iron roofs are not of interest.

Listing NGR: NU0649402812

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 236338
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.