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Elsecar Mill

A Grade II Listed Building in Hoyland, Barnsley

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Latitude: 53.4971 / 53°29'49"N

Longitude: -1.4172 / 1°25'2"W

OS Eastings: 438756

OS Northings: 400207

OS Grid: SE387002

Mapcode National: GBR LXJ0.Z3

Mapcode Global: WHDD4.6CCC

Plus Code: 9C5WFHWM+V4

Entry Name: Elsecar Mill

Listing Date: 23 April 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1151095

English Heritage Legacy ID: 333892

ID on this website: 101151095

Location: Elsecar, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74

County: Barnsley

Electoral Ward/Division: Hoyland Milton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Hoyland

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Elsecar Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Sheffield

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 23/10/2020

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HOYLAND NETHER
Elsecar
WATH ROAD (east side)
Elsecar Mill

23.4.74

II

Flour mill, now business premises, 1842 for the Fitzwilliam estate.

MATERIALS: Coursed, hammer-dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof.

EXTERIOR: of three storeys and six bays above a half-basement with a single-storey addition to the front right (south-west). The third bay from the north has an enlarged doorway, the fifth bay has a panelled door set in an ashlar surround. To the third bay on the first-floor there is a round-arched loading door with a gabled wooden gantry above to the second-floor. Windows, boarded at time of resurvey in the 1980s, have projecting sills and plain lintels. There are brick stacks to the south gable set central to the roof slopes, with a truncated stone chimney to rear-left (north-east) corner. The low addition to the south west has two windows to the front gable.

INTERIOR: much renewed but retains original cast-iron stanchions and principal ceiling beams. The roof retains exposed pattern-book king-post trusses.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT: from the late C18, Elsecar was the industrial village of the Earls Fitzwilliam, whose seat of Wentworth Woodhouse lies nearby. At Elsecar they invested in coal mining and iron working, erecting industrial buildings along with good quality workers’ housing and a range of other urban facilities including a church and school, all within what had been an agricultural landscape. The survival of many of these buildings makes Elsecar an important and significant place, telling the story of three centuries of coal mining, Christian paternalism, and industrial boom and decline. The flour mill, one of the industrial developments for the Fifth Earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857) was originally steam-powered.

Listing NGR: SE3875600207


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