Description

MANSFIELD

SK5461 BATH LANE 924-1/6/5 (South side) Stanton's Mill and adjoining outbuildings

II

Former water-powered textile mill, now workshops, and adjoining outbuildings. Late C18 and early C19, with C19 and late C20 alterations and additions. Probably for the fourth Duke of Portland, who established several such mills in the area. Coursed rubble with stone dressings, and concrete tile, corrugated asbestos and hipped slate roofs. Windows are mainly C20 top hung casements in original segment-headed openings. Late C18 block, to south, 3 storeys; 8-window range, has regular fenestration. At the rear, several of the first- and second-floor windows are boarded. Basement has 2 wheel openings with concrete lintel and piers, with 3 small blocked openings above them. To left, 3 windows. Larger early C19 block, to north, has steeper pitched roof. 3 storeys plus basement and garret; 13-window range. Regular fenestration above the basement. Basement has to right a large sliding door, flanked to left by 4 windows, one of them altered, and to right by a C20 door and another window. North gable has a garret window. To north again, a largely rebuilt block, 2 storeys plus basement; 3-window range, with flat roof. First floor has 2 windows to left, and door to right. Sliding door to basement. To north-east, former office building with hipped roof and brick side wall stack. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Windows mainly late C20, some of them with projecting surrounds. Central plain painted stone doorcase. Rear elevation, to Bath Lane, has to left 2 small 2-light casements with below a boarded door to left. To right, a single-storey flat-roofed link with a C20 casement and to right, a double board door with overlight. To right again, a single-storey stable with hipped slate roof. Central round-arched door flanked to left by a board door and to right by a boarded and blocked cart entrance with wooden lintel. Probably the oldest of the textile mills in Mansfield. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E: Buildings of England: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 173).

Listing NGR: SK5450561540

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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