Old Mill House At William Blyth Hoe Hill Yard.

BARTON UPON HUMBER

711/0/10004 Old Mill House at William Blyth Hoe Hi 05-NOV-04 ll Yard.

GV II Former clay milling house, at present disused. Before 1908, probably mid nineteenth century. Red brick with hipped pantile roof. Rectangular plan. The building is partly dilapidated and whilst most of the machinery was removed in 2000 some remains, including a worm drive screw. It stands next to the summer drying sheds (q.v.) and is part of a very siginificant group not only visually but also in terms of tile production. This mill house is shown on the 1908 OS map which was surveyed in 1886 and revised in 1906. These items form part of this very significant evolved industrial complex which with its associated Blyth yard at Ings is the only such tilery producing hand-made roof tiles using traditional methods to survive on the Humber Bank and possibly in the country. The process can be seen in its complete form from the mill house processing the clay, through the drying sheds for storing the formed tiles to the kiln for firing them with its office/lobby for the site foreman and for those supervising the kiln firing.