Description

NY 90 SE
9/187
9.12.69

REETH, FREMINGTON AND HEALAUGH
HEALAUGH SIDE
Old Gang Smelt Mill (formerly listed as Old Gang Mill with (Flue and Chimney)

GV
II

Lead smelting mill, and flue and subsidiary buildings. Late C18 and early
C19. Coursed rubble. Earlier building complex on terrace to north of
later buildings in valley bottom. Plan of earlier mill obscure. Later mill
has main building with wheelhouse to left and slag hearth and 3 ore hearths
to right. A roasting hearth is housed in a separate building to the right.
The building to the extreme right has a former silver hearth. The flue leads
from the ore hearths via the older mill up the hillside to remains of
chimney. The buildings were ruinous at the time of the resurvey, though
standing in places to roof height. The tall square section chimney to the
silver hearth remains intact. A Scheduled Ancient Monument (number 1227)

Listing NGR: NY9747300518

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26583435

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)