Description

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NY 74 SE ALSTON MOOR NENTHEAD

7/82 Former Powder Magazine
150 metres South West
of Chapel Houses

II

Farmbuilding, originally a gunpowder magazine belonging to the London
Lead Company. Probably early C19. Coursed rubble with stone flag
pyramidal roof. Square plan, with inserted cross wall (and later
temporary farm shelters abutting). Single original doorway in walls
18"-20" thick: small windows look later, probably made by enlarging
ventilation slits. Massively constructed roof with central post
supported by cross ties, raked struts to alternate principals, corner
ties, and substantial wall plates. Flag floor 2 later doorways
associated with its post-industrial use as a cattle/sheep shed. Note:
a deed of 1782 records the conveyance of a magazine to the London Lead
Company (which dominated Nenthead); the present building probably post-
dates the company's acquisition.

Listing NGR: NY7822443886

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26437994

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