Description

BRANSDALE HODGE BECK
SE 69 NW
(east side)
3/24 Bransdale Mill
GV II
Cornmill. C18; extended 1817; partly rebuilt 1842 (on datestone); restored
C20. Extension and rebuilding by William Strickland. Herringbone-tooled
sandstone with pantile roof. 2-storey and attic, single-window front, with
single-storey and attic extension to left. Round-arched doorways of
voussoirs flank 16-pane sash to ground floor of mill; similar window to
centre of first floor. 2 small shuttered openings to attic. Windows have
stone sills and heavy tooled lintels. Lintel to first-floor window is
inscribed: "REBUILT 1842", and is flanked by tie rod ends shaped to form the
initials W and S. Coped gables and coved cornice stack to end left.
Extension has board door with unequal 12-pane replacement sash to left and
shuttered window to right. Small shuttered opening to attic. Shaped sill
to left window probably a reused lintel. Rear: 2 storey, and attic, 3-bay
front, built against the hillside. Central round-arched opening of tooled
voussoirs to first floor. Shuttered openings to attic. Water from millpond
entered wheel chamber through small opening to right of first-floor opening
Powered grindstone installed at rear of mill in late C19 survives. Gable
wall to extension: datestone inscribed: WS
1817.
Interior: wheelchamber to left reuses C18 wheel pit. Surviving cast-iron
machinery comprises an overshot water-wheel with iron buckets, pitwheel,
wallower, spur wheel and crown wheel. 3 stone nuts with wooden teeth and 3
sets of mill stones (without furniture). Banded French stones made by
GEORGE MARIS of HULL in 1842; greystones inscribed "HS NIS 1870"; bluestones
not inscribed. Square section main shaft and hexagonal sack hoist shaft.
In mill extension, wooden framework for an oat crushing mill with one pair
of stones and a sifter. Corn was ground at Bransdale Mill until 1917; grist
was ground until 1953. Mill under restoration by The National Trust at time
of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE6205597924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bransdale Mill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26441962

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)