Cropton Mill

SE 7488-7588 14/30

CROPTON LOW LANE (west side, off) Cropton Mill

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Cornmill and attached house. Early C19 with later C19 alteration and extension. Sandstone with quoins; pantile roof with brick stacks. 2 storeys and attic, 2-window front to house, with 2-storey, 2-window right extension of equal height; mill forms projecting cross wing at left. House: 4-panel door with divided overlight, to right of 16-pane sash. 8-pane sashes to ground floor far left and above door; 12-pane sash to first floor left. 3-light, large-pane central horizontal-sliding sash to attic. Stone sills to all windows and lintels to ground- and first-floor openings. End stacks. Extension has later C19 3-window canted bay with large-pane sashes to ground floor. 12-pane sashes, with stone sills and lintels, to first floor. End right stack. Mill: 12-pane sash to ground floor, slatted window to first floor, square opening to attic. Stone sills and lintels to all openings. Hipped roof, with weathercock at rear. Rear of mill has a stack of boarded lifting doors to left of pivoting windows with stone sills and roughly-tooled lintels. Remains of the collateral low-breast wheel survive. It was driven by the race leading from a mill pond created by a weir at the confluence of Cropton Beck and the River Seven.

Listing NGR: SE7468088963