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Latitude: 52.1742 / 52°10'26"N
Longitude: -0.9431 / 0°56'35"W
OS Eastings: 472374
OS Northings: 253404
OS Grid: SP723534
Mapcode National: GBR BWZ.NDJ
Mapcode Global: VHDSB.LMS4
Plus Code: 9C4X53F4+MQ
Entry Name: Blisworth Mill, Including Engine Room and Office
Listing Date: 14 September 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1252859
English Heritage Legacy ID: 361419
ID on this website: 101252859
Location: Blisworth, West Northamptonshire, NN7
County: West Northamptonshire
Civil Parish: Blisworth
Built-Up Area: Blisworth
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Blisworth St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: Mill building
SP 7254 BLISWORTH GAYTON ROAD
10/10001 Blisworth Mill,
including Engine Room
and Office
GV II
Steam mill. Dated 1879. Orange colour flemish bond brick with blue
engineering brick and stone dressings. Welsh slate roof with coped
gable ends with moulded stone kneelers and moulded brick eaves
cornice.
PLAN: Large rectangular mill with east side onto canal, west side
facing yard, engine house and chimney on north west corner and office
on west side of yard.
EXTERIOR: 4 storey attic and basement. 8-bay east elevation facing
canal with giant pilasters and saw-tooth segmental arches over top
windows, 25 and 20-pane cast-iron windows in segmental arch openings;
some blind or blocked. Blocked basement and ground floor doorway at
centre. Originally a canopy over ground floor overhanging the canal.
Similar west elevation but with truncated chimney and engine house in
bays 1,2 and 3, the truncated chimney with later tank on top; the
engine house with similar windows, those in end gables with round
arches. Similar 3-bay north and south ends, the centre bay rises into
gable with round arch to left and right of which are tablets with
inscription 'J Westley 1879'. Small single storey office on west side
of yard with brick pilastered window bays, the doorway with pediment
and C20 porch.
INTERIOR: No machinery. Boarded floors and large pine beams supported
on cast-iron posts which diminish in size with each ascending storey.
Queen-strut roof.
NOTE: Kelly's Directory lists Westley Bros and Clark as millers
(steam)
SOURCE: Kelly's Directory 1898.
Listing NGR: SP7237453404
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