Old Powder Magazine is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. Powder magazine.
Old Powder Magazine
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-courtyard-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1966
- Type
- Powder magazine
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ARKENGARTHDALE NY 90 SE 9/5 Old Powder Magazine 7.12.66 GV II * Powder magazine, now in agricultural use. c1804. Rubble with flush quoins, stone slate roof. Hexagonal in plan; gabled porch with kneelers projecting from side formerly facing C B smelting mills. Single-storey. One side contains inserted sash window with glazing bars, other sides each contain a blank window with rounded head and projecting keystone. Shaped kneelers, triangular copings to pyramidal main roof, ball finial at apex. Interior: plastered and ceiled, a second doorway formerly in side opposite porch. Built to store the black powder used in the nearby C B lead-mines, established by Charles Bathurst. This unique survival of the great lead-mining industry of Arkengarthdale shows considerable design qualities. Robert T Clough, The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales, 1962; Arthur Raistrick, The Lead Industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale, 1975.
Listing NGR: NY9986303429
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