Newsham Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. A C17 Water mill.
Newsham Mill
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-nave-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Water mill
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 10 NW 5/96
NEWSHAM, MILL LANE (west side), Newsham Mill
II
Disused watermill, partly converted as pottery. Probably 1656 with later alterations. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor openings. Quoins. Ground floor, from left: small low-level opening lighting gearing chamber; added external stone steps; blocked single-light window in dressed stone surround; board door under deep irregularly-shaped lintel supported on imposts, on the left is graffito "DL", on the right are 2 recessed panels, the left damaged and inscribed "[I]656", the right "WI 1807", with strange symbols on space in between panels; larger single-light window with dressed stone surround. First floor, from left: board door under timber lintel; sash window with glazing bars under timber lintel. 2 roof lights. Single- storey outbuilding to right not of special interest. Left return: cast-iron skeleton of overshot water-wheel. Right return: recessed panel on quoin inscribed "WH 175[?]". Interior: on ground floor, pitwheel and spur-gearing in wooden hurst with ark; on first floor a pair of peak stones in tun; drive to oat dresser; mechanism for sack-hoist. The mill survives almost complete and represents a relatively early phase of corn watermills in North Yorkshire.
Listing NGR: NZ1090009941
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