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Fancroft Mills

mill (water)
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Fancroft Mills
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Detached L-plan multiple-bay three- and four-storey mill, built c.1820, with two-storey range to west. No longer in use. Located north of miller's house and powered by a tributary of the River Barrow. Constructed in phases. Pitched and half-hipped slate roofs with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Terracotta ridge cresting to principle mill building to north. Random coursed limestone and sandstone walls with remnants of roughcast render. Square-headed window openings with limestone flat arches and yellow brick reveals, some with timber sash windows. Flat arched door openings to mill with some decorative ogee-headed door openings with yellow brick reveals. Modern weighthouse and platform to south of yard. Yard enclosed by random coursed stone wall and accessed through carriage arch openings.

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