Buttercrambe Mill
mill in Buttercrambe with Bossall, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Buttercrambe Mill is a historic building in Buttercrambe, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The former watermill has a datestone reading "1697". It has a mill race on the River Derwent and milled corn. It was Grade II listed in 1953, and was converted into a house in the 1980s. In 2016, it was put up for auction, with a guide price of £300,000.
The mill is built of brick, with a stepped floor band, stepped eaves courses, and a pantile roof. There are two storeys and attics, and three bays. The middle bay projects under a pedimented gable, and it contains a doorway and rusticated brick quoins. The windows are casements, and all the openings have rusticated brick surrounds and keystones. In the attic is an oculus with keystones.
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