Key Words :- watermill corn

Viewing the Site :- Can be viewed from the road

Address :- Riverhead, Driffield, Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 6NN
Grid Ref :- TA 02877 57259
Co-ordinates :- Lat 54.001123 , Long -0.43198
Local Authority :- East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - East Riding
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No - 1161902,
Site Condition :- Site refurbished to residential housing
Site Dates :- 1790 -

Description and History of Site:-
Huge mill of brick four storeys plus loft end on to canal.
Mill. Mid C19. Brown brick, weatherboarding to gantry, pantiled roof.
4 storeys, 9 bays. Ground floor: boarded door under segmental head to
second bay, double boarded doors to sixth bay. 2 C20 windows with glazing
bars in enlarged openings to left, elsewhere casements with glazing bars
under segmental heads. First floor: 36-pane window to left, taking-in doors.
to second and sixth bays, pivoted 6-pane windows elsewhere. All openings
under segmental heads. Second and third floors: 36-pane windows to left,
all other windows pivoted 6-pane (with 3-pane lights over to second and
third bay). All openings have segmental heads. Gantry with gabled roof
over sixth bay. Plain close verges. Painted panel between second and third
floors: 'E. B. BRADSHAW & SONS LTD., RIVERHEAD MILL'.

Further Reading and References:-
YAHS - Hatcher Card Index. Research funded by the Yorkshire Arts Association 1972.
Hatcher, J. The Industrial Architecture of Yorkshire. Phillimore, 1985.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1210411

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