Mill Race Walls and Sluice with Piers and Sluice Keepers Shelter Adjacent is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Industrial facility.

Mill Race Walls and Sluice with Piers and Sluice Keepers Shelter Adjacent

WRENN ID
white-jade-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1987
Type
Industrial facility
Address
Mill Race Walls and Sluice with Piers and Sluice Keepers Shelter Adjacent, A694
OS grid reference
NZ 149 570
Coordinates
54.90839, -1.76776
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The mill race walls and sluice, along with the sluice-keeper's shelter and adjacent piers, were likely built around 1840 for J. Annandale, serving the Lintzford paper mill. The mill race features walls made of large sandstone blocks, with sandstone steps on either side leading to the sluice. The sluice is equipped with renewed cast iron machinery, secured by a chain and hook bearing the founder's mark of Parsons. At the eastern end of the garden to the north of the mill race, there are two gritstone piers, each about 80 centimeters high, featuring top bands and domed coping. At the western end, next to the sluice and overlooking the River Derwent, stands a small one-storey shelter made of sandstone rubble. This shelter has one bay, a boarded door, and a monopitch boarded roof.

Local climate

Mill Race Walls and Sluice with Piers and Sluice Keepers Shelter Adjacent receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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