Description

NZ 10 NW
5/96

NEWSHAM,
MILL LANE (west side),
Newsham Mill

II

Disused watermill, partly converted as pottery. Probably 1656 with later
alterations. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor openings.
Quoins. Ground floor, from left: small low-level opening lighting gearing
chamber; added external stone steps; blocked single-light window in dressed
stone surround; board door under deep irregularly-shaped lintel supported on
imposts, on the left is graffito "DL", on the right are 2 recessed panels,
the left damaged and inscribed "[I]656", the right "WI 1807", with strange
symbols on space in between panels; larger single-light window with dressed
stone surround. First floor, from left: board door under timber lintel;
sash window with glazing bars under timber lintel. 2 roof lights. Single-
storey outbuilding to right not of special interest. Left return: cast-iron
skeleton of overshot water-wheel. Right return: recessed panel on quoin
inscribed "WH 175[?]". Interior: on ground floor, pitwheel and spur-gearing
in wooden hurst with ark; on first floor a pair of peak stones in tun; drive to oat
dresser; mechanism for sack-hoist. The mill survives almost complete and
represents a relatively early phase of corn watermills in North Yorkshire.

Listing NGR: NZ1090009941

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26424253

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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