Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Barracks Mill | |
| parish |
Whitehaven borough, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
NX97361781 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NX91
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NX9717 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| BARRACKS MILL / / CATHERINE STREET / WHITEHAVEN / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75904 / NX9736417813 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Former fireproof flax mill (empty at time of inspection, August 1989). 1809 (dated rainwater heads and documentary evidence). Coursed limestone; renewed concrete pantiled gable-end roofs. Long range with centrally-placed engine house, possibly the first mill building to have its engine house so positioned and marking an important stage in the development of the textile mill. 4 storeys. 7 window bays to either side of slightly projecting pedimented central wing (which contains the engine house), including 2 loading bays asymmetrically placed. All windows under segmental arches with keystones; renewed casements with glazing bars. Some ground-floor window openings altered. Central doorway (double doors with recessed panels), the pedimented wing with one central window to each floor. Moulded stone cornice. End walls with stone coping and external stack; left-hand return rendered with 3 windows, the openings narrowed in brick; right return with 2 windows to each floor treated as to front, those to the left lengthened to form loading bays. 4th floor window set within stack. Blocked circular privy windows, 2 to each floor. Rear, the engine house projecting one window bay with tall tapering external stack, renewed top course of shaft in brick. Windows as to front, several altered. Interior: central rank of paired iron columns. Quatrefoil in section, with lugs for line shafting. Cast-iron queen-strut roof. Transverse arches below windows to equalise load. This mill is of national importance. It appears to be the earliest mill to contain a central engine house which was more economical in driving long line shafts. It is also one of the half dozen or so earliest surviving fire-proofed mills. | ||
| Plan, section and brief discussion in K Falconer and R Thorne's, 'Industrial Archaeology and the RCHME | ||
| Industries Archaeology Review (1986), 29-30. | ||
| placename:- | Barracks Mill | |
| district:- | Copeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NX97361781 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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