Description

HAREWOOD HARROGATE ROAD
SE34NW LS17 (west side, off)

2/98 The Old Corn Mill

GV II

Cornmill, now store. c 1800. Hammer-dressed stone, Welsh blue-slate roof. 3
storeys and loft. 3-bay facade: plinth, 6-panel doors flank central bay which
has "18+66" under window, marking the height of a flood in that year. Openings
Nov 16
have flat arches with voussoirs. Windows with projecting sills. Coped gables
with kneelers. Right-hand return has off-centre doorway with window to right.
1st floor has windows flanking central taking-in door with other doorways above
to 2nd floor and loft.

Interior: at ground floor rear is wheel-house with arched entry to mill-race and
retaining intact cast-iron undershot waterwheel with wooden buckets and intact
gearing by Porteus (Leeds). Set above wheel is semi-circular-arch lending support
to timbered floor above. Each floor has appropriate gearing grinding stone
chambers and wooden cog-wheels. Ceilings have square-cut pine spine beams and
joists with wide floorboards. Set in the south-west corner is ½-turn closed-
string staircase with moulded handrail and stick balusters. Last ran in 1976.

A fine survival. Part of the Harewood Estate.

Listing NGR: SE3105045870

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26556501

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version