Description

AISLABY COSTA LANE off)
SE 78 SE
(south-east side, off)
11/7 High Costa Mill and
attached cottage
10.11.53
II

Watermill and attached cottage. C18 cottage, modernised and extended in
C20. Mill dated 1819 on lintel, probably incorporating remains of earlier
building; partly renovated in C20. Cruck-framed cottage encased in
limestone with pantile roof. Mill roughly dressed sandstone with tooled
dressings; pantile roof and brick stack. Cottage: 2 storeys, 3 bays and
added projecting left bay. Entrance at rear in altered outshut. Large-pane
horizontal-sliding sashes with timber lintels, 3-light to ground floor and
2-light to first floor. Double garage doors beneath elliptical arch in left
bay, with C20 window above. Interior: one full cruck truss with saddle apex
divides the cottage into 2 bays. Mill: bridge type. 2 storeys and attic, 2
wide bays, irregular fenestration. Partly renewed stable door to left,
beneath tripartite herringbone-tooled-and-margined lintel with keystone
bearing a shield in relief, inscribed:
1819
IS
Right renewed board door beneath similar lintel, partly rendered.
Semicircular wheel arch to right of centre. Left-of-centre 2-light, 12-pane
window, partly shuttered. On first floor a single 2-light, large-pane
horizontal-sliding sash. 2 small square shuttered attic windows. Coped
gables and shaped kneelers. Left end stack. Rear: plank door to left,
beneath herringbone-tooled tripartite lintel. Off-centre wheel arch.
3-light, large-pane horizontal-sliding sash to first floor. Square
shuttered openings to loft. Right return: blocked opening above water level
probably for wheel axle of earlier mill. Interior: partly reconstructed
undershot, clasp-arm wheel of timber with original timber axle. Original
square main shaft, chamfered with run-out stops, rises through first floor
to floor of attic. Iron wallower and spur wheel survive. The site of one
pair of under-driven stones is visible on the first floor. Before 1713, the
mill was owned by Thomas Marshall of Aislaby Hall (qv), who became Lord
Mayor of York. R Hayes and J Rutter, Cruck framed buildings in Ryedale and
Eskdale, 1966, p 21. J Rushton, The Ryedale Story, second edition, 1986,
p 119.

Listing NGR: SE7772783926

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570563

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