Description

SE 10 NW
4/10000

Choppards,
CHOPPARDS LANE,
Wash Pit Mill

(Formerly listed as Wash Pit Mill, CHOPPARDS LANE, Wooldale)

04/11/91

II

Textile Mill c1840. Hammer dressed stone, stone slate roof. 4 1/2
storeys. 5-bay gable fronted, 7 bay returns. All windows have
thin ashlar flush sills and lintels, 6 paned timber glazing, top
casement. Coped gable with kneelers, west gable has chimney.
Arched window in gable apex. Outer bay windows of attic storey
have window lintels aligned to the roof pitch, an unusual
feature. Taking-in door in 5 bay to first 3 floors only. Custom
glazed rooflights set close to ridge, 3 each side.
Interior: timber floored with joists and spine beams supported
by cast iron columns with ring caps. Stone cantilevered semi-
spiral stair rises to attic on north side, lit by small lunette
at attic level. 7 bay softwood fish-bone king-post roof with tie-
beam at collar level. Principal rafters support 5 purlins each
side and are morticed into main spine beam which acts as lower
tie-beam and supports attic floor. Built off the floor at eaves
edge are unusual tumbled wedges which support vertical post to
principal with notched joint. The wedges are bolted through to
the spine-beam/tie-beam.

Listing NGR: SE1423306670

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428142

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