Description

SK 44 30 PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE THE WHARF
7/209 (East Side)
14.3.75 Trent Corn Mill
No 1 (formerly
listed as No 1 &
No 3 Warehouses')
GV II
Warehouse, later converted to corn mill, now small business
premises. 1816 with late C19 additions and alterations. Red
brick with brick and stone dressings. Slate roof with
projecting hoist roofs to gable walls, plus stepped eaves band.
Three storeys and five bays plus later additions to north.
South elevation has slightly advanced centre bay with wide
doorways to each floor and a segmental stone arch to top with
raised keystone dated '1816'. To either side on each floor
there are pairs of segment headed windows with small paned iron
casements. Gable walls have wide central doorways, one above
the other, those to east with a stone arch to top similar to
that on south elevation, and a semi-circular window to the top.
Some doorways have projecting platforms to the front. North
addition has segment headed openings and an engine house with
the remains of a brick stack, which was erected when the
warehouse was converted into a corn mill. Interior has seven
wide queen post trusses with side struts and wooden floors
supported on iron columns. One of a group of industrial
buildings that was erected after the completion of the Trent and
Mersey Canal, when Shardlow was a thriving inland port.

Listing NGR: SK4426130372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26380731

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)