Description

NORTH MOLTON HEASLEY MILL
SS 73 SW
10/155 Heasley House Hotel with flanking
20.2.67 walls and garden railings adjoining
to south (formerly listed as
Heasley Mill Guest House)
GV II
Mine captain's house, now hotel. Early C19. Rendered (lined as ashlar), probably
over stone rubble. Half-hipped scantle-slate roof. Brick stacks (one rebuilt and
one truncated).
Plan: Double-depth plan with 2 rooms to front and back, pairs of integral end stacks
and central entrance passage with staircase hall to rear. Tall flanking splayed wing
walls projecting to front, enclosing small front garden with railings along the
front. The house has been built set-back between two earlier houses, Yen Cottage
(q.v.) to left and Heasley Cottage (q.v.) to right, in an attempt to form a
symmetrical composition. The houses either side are at different angles and they are
screened from the main house by the tall flanking walls. Two storeys and gable-end
lit attic.
Exterior: Symmetrical 3-bay front; C20 plastic glazing bar sashes (probably of
similar pattern to the former early C19 wooden sashes) with raised lintels incised as
voussoirs. Central recessed early C19 door with 6 raised and fielded panels, cast-
iron knocker and radial fanlight. Painted wooden Doric doorcase consisting of
unfluted three-quarter columns supporting sections of triglyph frieze and open
triangular pediment with guttae to soffit. Door approached by 3 stone steps. Tall
flanking splayed walls with stepped coping. Early C19 wrought-iron railings to front
on low stone rubble retaining wall. Pair of central wrought-iron gates with central
rails, paired standards with urn finials. Right-hand gate with small wheel running
on semi-circular rail attached to right-hand standard (possibly a later alteration).
Two-light attic casements in gable ends. Three-bay rear elevation with boxed 4-pane
sashes; central first-floor round-arched staircase window.
Interior: Entrance passage with dado rail. Early C19 six panelled doors with moulded
architraves. Left-hand ground floor room has early C19 marble chimney-piece with
pairs of pilasters supporting frieze with anthemion ornament and patera to centre.
Depressed-arched recesses flanking chimney-piece. Right-hand rear room (probably
former kitchen) has large open fireplaces with early C19 keyed beaded surround and
mantelshelf. Meat hooks in ceiling. Early C19 three flight staircase to rear, with
landings, open string with cut brackets, beaded string band, rectangular-section
stick balusters (3 per tread), ramped moulded handrail, square newel posts, turned
foot newel post, and ramped dado rail to wall. Staircase window with beaded splayed
jambs. First-floor rooms not inspected.
There was much mining activity (mostly copper) in the area around Heasley Mill in the
early C19. Bamfldye Mine nearby was probably reopened in the early C19 and was
active by the 1840s. This is thought to have been the mine manager's (or captain's)
house.

Listing NGR: SS7372232211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509111

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)