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Millbeck Towers

A Grade II Listed Building in Underskiddaw, Cumberland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.625 / 54°37'30"N

Longitude: -3.1531 / 3°9'11"W

OS Eastings: 325647

OS Northings: 526154

OS Grid: NY256261

Mapcode National: GBR 6GFY.4V

Mapcode Global: WH706.J0QQ

Plus Code: 9C6RJRGW+2Q

Entry Name: Millbeck Towers

Listing Date: 8 August 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1121982

English Heritage Legacy ID: 72199

ID on this website: 101121982

Location: Millbeck, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA12

County: Cumberland

District: Allerdale

Civil Parish: Underskiddaw

Traditional County: Cumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Crosthwaite St Kentigern

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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Description


NY 22 NE UNDERSKIDDAW MILLBECK

8/114 Millbeck Towers

G.V. II

Woollen carding mill, now private house. Late C18 with extensive alterations of 1903 for John Daniel Banks. Cement render and roughcast walls with Lombard frieze eaves, under Welsh slate roof, with fish-scale greenslate pavilions surmounted by weather vanes; rendered chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays, with flanking 3-storey angle towers. Top-glazed door and C20 casement windows in cement surrounds under pediments. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, 1vii, pp158-172. A painting of the building before conversion is reproduced by Molly Lefebure, Cumberland Heritage, 1970, p125.

Listing NGR: NY2564726154

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