Unthank Mill, Houses And Cow House Attached

STANHOPE B6278 (East side,off) NY 9939 Stanhope 34/143 Unthank mill, house 8/7/76 and cow-house attached GV II*

Mill, house and cow-house, now all cow-house.C17,C18 and Cl9.Coursed sandstone rubble with tooled and pecked ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof. L-plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays and pent right one-storey wheel-house. C19 2-storey addition projects at left. Mill at right has tooled surround to partly-blocked central doorway. Flat stone lintels over boarded loft opening and flanking windows with flat stone sills, the left smaller. Wheel-house has wooden lintel over door. C19 addition has pecked stone lintels and projecting stone sills to ground floor and first-floor openings, boarded up. Low-pitched roofs, with parallel ridges, have 3 ridge chimneys, 2 truncated. Right return rear wing has plain stone surround to Dutch door and flanking windows.

Interior: much machinery, including pit wheel; all gears and cogs visible are of whitish wood. 2 bed-stones in floor above. Water wheel missing; sluice for undershot partly surviving. Cow-house at rear has 2 internal boarded partitions and 3 V-shaped plank feeding troughs between stalls.

One upper stone on ground outside mill. Decaying and derelict at time of survey, but some roof timbers renewed.

Listing NGR: NY9938839107