Bate Mill (disused watermill)

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancment on 25/06/2019

SJ 87 SW 6/52

PEOVER SUPERIOR C.P. BATEMILL LANE Bate Mill (disused watermill)

(formerly listed under CINDER LANE, previously listed as Bate Mill)

GV II Water mill. C18 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. English garden wall bond brick with stone slate roof. Two storeys.

Road front: two pilaster buttresses dividing the front into three bays, the two bays to left and the buttresses being of late C19 or C20 brick with three stretcher courses between header course, that to right of late C18 or early C19 brick with four, five and six stretcher courses between header courses. Openings to mill leat in (from left) bays 1 and 2 with timber and stone lintels and vertical iron bars to right-hand opening. One segmental-arched three-light casement window at ground floor in bay 2, with flat-headed similar windows at first floor in bays 1 and 2.

Right hand gable end: segmental-arched double door to ground floor with loft above (blocked window adjacent to timber door) and pulley to gable apex. Left hand gable end: staircase abutting with stone treads leading to first floor doorway with stone lintel, hinge and latch dressings and C20 half-glazed door. Ground floor doorway to left of stair with stone lintel. Projecting verges with bargeboards to both gables

Rear: central outshot under catslide roof, with stone base and ground floor window. First floor three-light window to left above corrugated-iron lean-to in angle. To the right, three stone leat channels with segmental-arched heads, and short stone walls to tail race.

Interior: not inspected but iron-framed waterwheel visible through leat openings.

Listing NGR: SJ8007972402