Textile Mill Including Bridge Immediately South South East

DARTINGTON SHINNER'S BRIDGE SX7962 Textile Mill including Bridge immediately South 12/486 South East

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Textile mill. 1930-1 by Oswald P Milne for Dartington Hall. Local limestone rubble with dressed quoins and some weatherboarding. Delabole slate roof with gabled ends. Plan: Rectangular plan with entrance at SE end under hoist house, and water wheel on SW side facing Birdwell Brook. Exterior; 2 storey and loft. The south east gable end has weatherboarding and gable hoist house to loft supported on 2 tall stone piers with caps, to left of which is flight of integral stone steps to first floor doorway now enclosed in glazed porch; 3-light casements to left and right. Long 5- window south west elevation with 5-light windows and north west gable end has 3 windows on first floor and 2 on ground with doorway on left and ventilation slit in gable. All metal frame casements with glazing bars, relieving arches and slate cills. Overshot water wheel and long wooden launder on SW side. Including bridge to SE over Birdwell Brook; coeval with mill and by O P Milne; local limestone rubble with single span round arch with dressed limestone arch ring and cambered parapet swept out at ends.

NOTE: An Irish weaver Heremon (Toby) Fitzpatrick was invited to Dartington in 1927 to set up a workshop. Although he believed in hand weaving he advocated machine prepared yarn and consequently this mill was built. He was replaced by Hiran Winterbotham in 1934.

SOURCE: V Bonham-Carter, Dartington Hall 1925-56 (Dartington Hall archive)

Listing NGR: SX7903362078