Chimney Mill

HER Number:
4319

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Chimney Mill

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This was the site of a windmill before 1649, with the last mill being built here in 1782. This last mill was the first five sailed windmill in the country, a smock mill designed by Smeaton, and may have been the last working windmill in Newcastle. It fell out of use in 1872. Prior to this the mill had been part of a complex which contained other activities, including a snuff mill. Following its closure it was utilised by Newcastle Golf Club as a clubhouse. The surviving window arrangements were installed at this time along with a new front to the building. The sails were dismantled in 1924, the fan tail removed in 1931 and the windshaft and cap removed in 1951. It remained in use as a clubhouse until the early 1970s when it was restored by and became an architect's office for Thomas Faulkner. The covering of the tower was replaced with a modern "shiplap" boarding and a temporary flat cap was erected. From 1983 fashion designer Nigel Cabourn had work space in there. At some point during the life of the golf club, asbestos tiling was laid over this earlier covering. The buildings were listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description: 'Mill and house, later golf club, now offices. 1782 by Smeaton. Built as 5-sailed mill. House of brick with painted ashlar dressings: 2 storeys, 3 bays; golf club front, added 1892, has bracketed canopy and raised surround, with NGC (Newcastle Golf Club) on one bracket and 1892 on the other, flanked by windows in raised stone surrounds; similar surround to single and tripartite first floor windows; battlemented parapet. Mill above of weatherboarding with wooden gallery: octagonal, with bargeboarded gables to windows in alternate bays; parapet. Historical note: in use as a mill until 1892; as a golf club until 1975. Windshaft and cap removed 1951.'

Easting:
424060

Northing:
565540

Grid Reference:
NZ424060565540

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4319 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NE I. Ayris, 1989, Chimney Mill, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 58 D. Hutt (ed), North East Mills Group, 1998, Mills - Old, New & Reused leaflet; North of England Civic Trust, February 2009, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne - Suggested Conservation Area Scoping Study, Draft Report, p 15; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1024905