Powder Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Industrial. 1 related planning application.
Powder Mills
- WRENN ID
- waiting-mortar-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Industrial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LYDFORD SX 67 NW 11/20 Powder Mills - GV II
Ruins of gunpowder mill. Established in 1844 by a Plymouth alderman George Frean. Originally quite an extensive complex of buildings running up the valley with several water wheels turned by water from a leat and with 2 chimneys. All the buildings are now in varying degrees of ruin although one chimney survives and 3 main groups are recognisable of granite rubble with granite lintels, all roofless. The chimney is well constructed with stringcourse near the top and plinth. It has a covered channel running downhill from it towards the largest ruinous building. The invention of dynamite in 1867 rapidly superceded gunpowder. and the mills, which employed about 100 men closed in the 1890s. Source: Dartmoor : A New Study - Industry : Frank Booker.
Listing NGR: SX6278777308
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