Mill Dam At Westwood Mills is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 2000. A Industrial Revolution Dam. 1 related planning application.
Mill Dam At Westwood Mills
- WRENN ID
- white-pier-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 2000
- Type
- Dam
- Period
- Industrial Revolution
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 01 SE 391/5/10018 20-JUN-00
COLNE VALLEY LOWESTWOOD LANE Linthwaite Mill Dam at Westwood Mills
GV II*
Dam to mill pond. 1801, enlarged 1824 and 1858. Coursed local gritstone. Retaining wall approximately 3 meters high on east face with sluice gates at north to water wheel and at south to overflow. Triangular in plan, tapering to goit from river at west end; approximately 200meters long and 50 meters wide. The north side of the mill pond is bounded by the towpath of the Huddersfield Canal, a contemporary structure, and the south side is embanked down to the river Colne. This pond also supplied water to the small mill dam at Lower Mill to the south-east now called Titanic Mill. HISTORY; recorded as the dam embankment, byewash, pentrough and wheel race in a document of 1801 and enlarged in 1824 when a new 2 storey fulling mill was added. The new work included wheel race, wooden and stone pentroughs, dam embankment, two trunks, sluices and byegoits.
Listing NGR: SE0948414574
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