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Historic Environment Desk-based Assessment at the Old Flint Mill Consall Forge Wetley Rocks Staffordshire NGR SK 0046 4839 Site code: CFM 15 Produced for Consall Hydro Ltd. by Zoe Sutherland & Jonathan Goodwin of Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology Service Floor 3, Civic Centre, Glebe Street Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire ST4 1HH Tel: 01782 237895 Email: [email protected] Report No. 376 May 2015 Contents Non-technical summary......................................................................................................... vii 1.0 Introduction........................................................................................................................ 1 2.0 Legislation and planning policy context .......................................................................... 2 3.0 Methodology for assessment of significance .................................................................... 6 4.0 Site location and character................................................................................................ 8 5.0 Baseline information .......................................................................................................... 9 6.0 Historical and archaeological background .................................................................... 10 7.0 Cartographic evidence..................................................................................................... 12 Robert Plot’s map of Staffordshire, 1686................................................................... 12 Yates’ map of 1775 ...................................................................................................... 12 Plan of Canal and Towing path at Consall Mills, Previous to 1834......................... 12 Plan of Canal and Towing path at Consall Mills from 1835 to the Construction of the North Staffordshire Railway................................................................................. 13 Plans of Consall and Cheddleton Flint Mills and Lands July 21st 1848 .................. 13 Plans of Consall Upper and Lower Mills, Limekilns and Lands adjoining 1852 .... 13 Plan shewing the Consall Mill Pound etc previous to the construction of the North Staffordshire Railway 1853 ........................................................................................ 14 Draft plan of Consall Flint Mills…1862.................................................................... 14 Plan of the Canal and Towing Path at Consall, 1864 ............................................... 15 ii 1888 Ordnance Survey map........................................................................................ 15 1900 Ordnance Survey map........................................................................................ 15 1925 Ordnance Survey map........................................................................................ 15 1945 Ordnance Survey map........................................................................................ 15 1966 Ordanace Survey map ........................................................................................ 16 8.0 Site inspection................................................................................................................... 16 9.0 Assessment of impacts ..................................................................................................... 18 Direct impacts.............................................................................................................. 18 Impact on the setting of designated assets ................................................................. 19 10.0 Conclusions and recommendations .............................................................................. 21 11.0 Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................ 22 12.0 References ....................................................................................................................... 23 FIGURE 1: Site location........................................................................................................ 26 FIGURE 2: Map showing the mill at the centre of the 500m study area ......................... 27 FIGURE 3: Plan of the Consall Mill complex with the various elements of the proposed scheme highlighted................................................................................................................. 28 FIGURE 4: Detail plan of the proposed hydro scheme...................................................... 29 FIGURE 5: Deatil plan and section of the proposed hydro scheme showing level information ............................................................................................................................. 30 FIGURE 6: Extract from Robert Plot’s map of Staffordshire, 1686 ................................ 31 iii FIGURE 7: Extract from Yates’ map of 1775..................................................................... 31 FIGURE 8: Composite Plan of Canal and Towing Path at Consall Mills Previous to 1834.......................................................................................................................................... 32 FIGURE 9: Composite Plan of Canal and Towing Path at Consall Mills, from 1835 to the construction of the North Staffordshire Railway ......................................................... 33 st FIGURE 10: Detail from Plans of Consall & Cheddleton Flint Mills and Lands July 21 1848.......................................................................................................................................... 34 FIGURE 11: Detail from Plan of Consall Upper ad Lower Mills, Limekilns and Lands adjoining, 1852 ....................................................................................................................... 35 FIGURE 12: Detail from Plan shewing the Consall Mill Pound etc. previous to the construction of the North Staffordshire Railway 1853....................................................... 36 FIGURE 13. Composite extract of Draft plan of Consall Mills…November 1862 .......... 37 FIGURE 14: Extract from the 1888 OS map ...................................................................... 38 FIGURE 15: Extract from the 1900 OS map ...................................................................... 38 FIGURE 16: Extract from the 1925 OS map ...................................................................... 39 FIGURE 17: Extract from the 1945 OS map ...................................................................... 39 FIGURE 18: Extract from the 1966 OS map ...................................................................... 40 FIGURE 19: Early 20th century advertising print for Consall Flnt Mill.......................... 40 FIGURE 20: Map showing HER entries for the study area .............................................. 41 FIGURE 21: HLC map for the study area .......................................................................... 42 iv PLATE 1: The ‘island’ between the canal and the railway upon which the Consall Mill is sited, looking east................................................................................................................ 43 PLATE 2: The existing in-let from the canal, looking south-west .................................... 43 PLATE 3: The open tank for the over-grown metal sluice mechanism, looking east ..... 44 PLATE 4: The sluice mechanism looking west ................................................................... 44 PLATE 5: The grassy terraced area within which the tank and sluice are located, looking north east................................................................................................................... 45 PLATE 6: Looking eastwards down the access road to the stepped-down area surrounding the mill .............................................................................................................. 45 PLATE 7: The tail pond looking east, with the felled trees adjacent to the railway ....... 46 PLATE 8: Looking north west to the east-facing bank of the tail pond with the mill buildings behind ..................................................................................................................... 46 PLATE 9: Looking north across the tail pond with the brick arch of the in-let just visble at the bottom of the bank to the left ..................................................................................... 47 PLATE 10: The stone arch out-let from the tail pond to the river, looking south .......... 47 PLATE 11: Looking eastwards from the lock down the slope of the canal bank, along the route of the by-water pipe............................................................................................... 48 PLATE 12: Looking south west across the canal to the proposed exit point for the by- water........................................................................................................................................ 48 v Table 1: Criteria for assessment of significance.................................................................... 7 APPENDIX 1: List of desigated heritage assets located within a 500m radius of NGR SK 0046 4839 on the Staffordshire HER and NHLE APPENDIX 2: List of the non-designated heritage assests located within a 500m radius of NGR SK 0046 4839 on the Staffordshire HER vi Non-technical summary Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology Service carried out an historic environment desk-based assessment (DBA) to accompany development proposals