Description

NY 53 NE HUNSONBY LITTLE SALKELD

6/77 The Watermill, attached house, barn 11.9.74 and stables (formerly listed as The Corn Mill)

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Water corn mill, miller's house, barn and stables. Mid or late C18 with later alterations and 1975 restoration. Cement rendered sandstone rubble walls. House has sandstone slate roof; the mill graduated greenslate and the stables Welsh slate, all with rendered chimney stacks. Central 2-storey, 2-bay miller's house with right 2-bay barn under common roof. Left 3-storey, 2-bay mill and right 3-bay former stable. House has off-centre panelled door in plain opening. Sash windows, some in original stone surrounds. Barn has segmental-headed doorway and sash window under loft doorway. Mill has plank door and casement windows in raised stone surrounds. Stables have central and right plank doors and C20 sash windows; right loft doorway. Rear of mill has 2 waterwheels which drive much of the original machinery inside. A working water corn mill, see The Watermill, Little Salkeld, Cumbria: A Short Guide for Visitors, second edition 1982, which fully describes the mill machinery and its restoration. Left barn attached to mill is not of interest.

Listing NGR: NY5667535980

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)