Newby Bridge Farmhouse, Attached Outbuildings, And Mill (Formerly Listed Separately)

STAVELEY-IN-CARTMEL A590 side) SD 38 NE (North side) 7/92 Newby Bridge 4.2.77 Farmhouse, attached outbuildings, and mill (formerly listed separately)

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House and mill. C18 with later additions. Stone rubble, parts roughcast, with slate roofs. 2 storeys, 4 bays; 1st bay breaks forward under catslide roof, 4th bay has later single-storey outshut under catslide roof. Outbuilding continues to left, gabled outbuilding to right, with mill to rear. Central bays have inset timber beam over ground floor with band over. Windows have casements. Outshut has small boarded opening. Outbuilding to left has pivoted door with slated lintel and dripstone. Outbuilding to right is roughcast. Entrance with slated lintel and dripstone is boarded up. 2 cross-axial stacks. Right return of 3 storeys and 6 bays, the last 4 bays break forward, forming mill. 1st 2 bays have 2-light wooden chamfered-mullion windows, no glass, other window opening unglazed or boarded. 2nd bay has entrance with paired pivoted doors. Mill has paired doors to 4th bay with loading door over. Window openings to 3rd and 6th bays of ground floor, and 1st floor. Rear of house of 3 storeys due to slope of ground. Ground floor windows have small-paned fixed glazing and sash with vertical glazing bars. 1st and 2nd floors have windows in former loading bays, with timber panels between. Outbuilding to right has entrance and window to lower level; small opening above. Mill has 3-bay 2-storey outshut under catslide roof. Segmental-headed entrance and C20 lean-to greenhouse with square boarded openings above. Mill interior has wheel pit with wood and iron wheel in end bay (ie. Lowder type mill) and some wooden machinery eg. pit wheel of rare clasp-arm type and lantern gearing; 3 upper cruck trusses. A fine example of this type of mill. See M.Davies Shiel "Watermills of Cumbria", 1978.

Listing NGR: SD3659786245