Archaeology Notes

Event ID 678126

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN70SW 43.00 71540 01580

NN70SW 43.01 70620 02332 (From NN 70265 02664 to NN 71390 01760) Lade

NN70SW 43.02 71558 01600 Spinning Mill

NN70SW 43.03 71512 01612 Water Wheel House

NN70SW 43.04 71496 01633 Houses

NN70SW 43.05 71519 01557 Old Weaving Shed

NN70SW 43.06 70309 02667 Weir

NN70SW 43.07 71483 01646 The Old School

NN70SW 43.08 71533 01654 Pellet Store

(Location cited as NN 715 017). Deanston Mills (cotton) and village; founded 1785. Oldest parts of the mill complex are: a 5-storey attic and basement, 7-by 8-bay block on an L plan, dating from c. 1827, with cast-iron columns and beams supporting wooden joists and floors; the contemporary vaulted weaving shed; and the water-wheel house, which still contains the wrought-iron flume and shuttles for 4 large water-wheels, as well as 2 Gordon turbines of 1926 and a Gilkes turbine. The 2-storey workshop building survives in derelict condition.

J R Hume 1977

The building has been utilised as a distillery and in particular as bonded warehouse storage since 1967.

Information from letter from RCAHMS (GDH) 10 November 1987 to RCHME, York

[see MS/744/69]

There are similarities between Deanston and Marshall's Temple Mill, Leeds. "It [Deanston] is clearly a highly significant site".

Information from letter dated 13 November 1986 from Dr I H Goodall, RCHME, York. [see MS/744/69]