| Catalogue Finding Number | WYHER/12869 |
| Office record is held at | Historical Environment Record, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service |
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| Title | No. 6 Gibson's Mill Cottage, Wadsworth/Heptonstall |
| Description | No. 6 Gibson's Mill Cottage, Wadsworth/Heptonstall. Early 19th century toll keeper's cottage.
'Small single cell cottage adjacent to toll bridge (q.v.), likely to have been the toll keeper's house. Early C19. Quoins, watershot masonry, stone slate roof. Of similar character to Nos. 4 and 5 Gibson's Mill Cottages (q.v.) which it faces across the former mill yard to Gibson Mill. 3 light flat faced mullioned window with plain stone surrounds and projecting sill to left of doorway with sill tie, 4 light window over to 1st floor. Gable stack to left hand return wall which has outshut attached with 2 doorways. Rear backs on to river and has 2 light window to ground floor. Right hand return wall has doorway with tie stone jambs to 1st floor approached up a flight of 5 stone steps. This is adjacent to the parapet of the toll bridge. A wooden plaque is fixed to the wall recording the various tolls'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 12/12/1984. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1226167. Web site accessed 18/10/2013).
Gibson Mill was the subject of a National Trust Vernacular Buildings Survey in 1992. The resulting report, which contains photocopies of original photographic prints is held by WYAAS.
The report provides a detailed historic back ground to the mill and architectural description of the mill and associated features see PRN 12867). These include associated 19th century workers' cottages (also see PRN 12868) and a bridge (PRN 12870).
The report describes these cottages as early mill workers' cottages which show the use of domestic scale of building for accommodation and workshop function in an early 19th century mill complex. They were originally built as a pair of cottages with a central chimney stack. The first floor was domestic and the ground floor may have been a workshop. The southern cottage was demolished in the late 19th century. The report goes on to provide a more detailed description.
(National Trust Vernacular Buildings Survey. 1992. 'Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags'). |
| Date | 21st century |
| Extent | contact the West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service for information on what is available |
| Level | Item |