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Tamarmole
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11 years ago

The 2013 buildings at risk registers are available on the English Heritage website - interesting reading.

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simonrail
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11 years ago

NOT on the register is Skelton Park Pit, a Cleveland ironstone mine with extensive remains of buildings, described to me years ago by an EH Inspector as "undoubtedly of national importance." This derelict site continues to collapse at an alarming rate while the landowner is quite happy to "leave it to Mother Nature." Six of the buildings are Listed but this appallingly neglected site should at least be Scheduled to protect more of the remains. Lesser sites are so protected in other places so why is this one left out?
Needless to say my sending of information to EH to attempt to raise the profile of the place is akin to urinating in the wind!

Yes, I'll have it - what is it?

christwigg
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11 years ago

Seem to recall we all added photos of it to their "Heritage At Risk" list a few years back when they requested help from Joe Public.........

simonrail
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11 years ago

No doubt we did but the buildings at Park Pit are Listed only, not even given a star, so consequently they do not qualify for inclusion on the Heritage at Risk Register.
That is why I am so keen to get the site Scheduled; it will then qualify for the HAR. In addition features like the sites of the horse gins will be included in the protection; they are not protected at present nor the magazines nor the boiler seating blocks nor the chimney base nor flues etc., etc.
Until the remains at Park Pit are on the HAR nothing good will happen to this unique site. And the HAR is barely the start.

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Tamarmole
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11 years ago

I've just had a look at the Skelton Park photos - I'd forgotten what a fascinating place it was; it must be twenty years since I visited the mine.

The mine does need to be considered as a complete entity - listing individual components of the site (whilst better than nothing) really is missing the point.

ttxela
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11 years ago

I might be talking out of my hat but I was under the impression that if a building was listed all associated structures within it's curtiledge were also listed if built before 1947?

exspelio
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11 years ago

"ttxela" wrote:
I might be talking out of my hat but I was under the impression that if a building was listed all associated structures within it's curtiledge were also listed if built before 1947?

Curtiledge (or however its spelt! 😞 ) refers to close area around the listed site and date is not relevant, the important date is when the site was listed, and for what, our 1780's house was listed grade 2 in 1952, so any applications have to fit in with how it looked in 1952!!, that includes buildings around the yard including rendered brick built porches added in the '40's!!.

Always remember, nature is in charge, get it wrong and it is you who suffers!.