Peat Store of Smelting Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1973. Peat store.
Peat Store of Smelting Mill
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1973
- Type
- Peat store
- Address
- Peat Store of Smelting Mill, Grinton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 049 964
- Coordinates
- 54.36347, -1.92604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The peat store of the smelting mill is a disused structure from the early 19th century, built from limestone rubble with a stone slate roof. It is a single-storey building featuring four bays of round-headed archways, of which the second is open while the others are wholly or partly blocked. The rear elevation has four slits that may have been part-blocked former peat chutes. There is a small window on the left end and a blocked round-arched opening on the right end. Peat was the fuel used in the lead smelting mill, with a year's supply taken from the moor, dried, and stored near the mill for use. This peat store is the best preserved of any lead-smelting mill complex in Swaledale and Wensleydale and is scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Peat Store of Smelting Mill receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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