Peat Store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1970. Barn.
Peat Store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill
- WRENN ID
- low-cobalt-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1970
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Peat Store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill, Keldheads Lane, Preston-Under-Scar
- OS grid reference
- SE 077 909
- Coordinates
- 54.3143, -1.88174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The peat store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill, now used as a hay barn, dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of rubble with a corrugated sheet roof and consists of two storeys and four bays. The building features quoins and has four cart openings on the ground floor, each with semi-circular arches made of rubble voussoirs. Above these openings are plain openings. This peat store is the only substantially complete structure remaining from the Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill, which was built around 1840 and extended in 1855. The mill replaced an earlier mill located near Preston corn mill. In 1855, the flue of the smelting mill, which has since collapsed, was extended to approximately two miles, ending near Cobscar Lead Smelting Mill in the parish of Redmire. The mill ceased operations around 1888. The Keldheads Mines were situated near Preston Mill in the parish of Wensley.
Local climate
Peat Store of Keldheads Lead Smelting Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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