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Langley-on-Tyne, HEXHAM, NE47 5LT

A range of buildings here is shown on the first edition OS 6" scale map (published in 1865). However, it is not part of the scheduled area of the Langley & Blagill Lead Smelt Mills. The cottages remain occupied and have been greatly improved or rebuilt. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018211?section=official-list-entry

"The building range known as Sawmill Cottages, which includes a two storey house at the east end of a row of three cottages, is excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath it and the flue which exits the building through the south wall are included. The 1805 plan of Blagill Mill shows this range of buildings to be the reducing and refining house. Across the trackway to the west of the cottage conversions there is another range of buildings, mostly surviving as wall footings with the easternmost single storey lean-to building still roofed and used as a garage. This building range is considered to have comprised ancillary buildings (such as store-rooms and workshops) and will retain buried deposits that will allow the identification of their functions." https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018211?section=official-list-entry Allen Valleys Local History Group have a photo of these buildings taken in 1905: http://www.allenvalleyslocalhistory.org.uk/photo/langley-1905-0025-014/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220917110225/http://www.allenvalleyslocalhistory.org.uk/photo/langley-1905-0025-014/

Two-storey rear of ruined building shown here Image

The two-storey rear elevation of this building is shown here Image "One nearly complete building survives at the east end of the area, 60m east of Sawmill Cottages, which has been interpreted as a coal and lime house dating to before 1805. This twin celled, two storey stone building built into the rising ground, retains some flooring and more than half of its stone slab roofing. Across the trackway behind this building there is the approximately 2m high earthwork dam for the reservoir (which still holds water). This reservoir was part of a complex water management system which supplied water to both mills." https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018211?section=official-list-entry

This rural land between Hexham and Allendale was an active lead mining area in the 19th century. This derelict cottage is believed to have been a miner's residence and is close to what is now a private fishing lake.

This building at the west end of the eastern reservoir is shown on the 25 inch scale Ordnance Survey map published in 1897 and is a surviving building from Langley & Blagill Lead Smelt Mills. Keys to the Past (N13736) describes: "This early 19th century building was the former store and office of the Langley Lead Smelting Mill. It is the only standing building left from this once extensive complex. This is a Grade II Listed Building protected by law." https://keystothepast.info/search-records/results-of-search/results-of-search-2/Site-Details/?PRN=N13736 https://web.archive.org/web/20220917064854/https://keystothepast.info/search-records/results-of-search/results-of-search-2/Site-Details/?PRN=N13736 Beamish Museum's People's Collection have an undated photo of this building here: http://collections.beamish.org.uk/search-detail?item=NEG1846&query=langley&searchType=everything&hiQuality=0&withPhotos=1&filterQuery=smelt https://web.archive.org/web/20220917115836/http://collections.beamish.org.uk/search-detail?item=NEG1846&query=langley&searchType=everything&hiQuality=0&withPhotos=1&filterQuery=smelt Langley and Blagill lead smeltmills, flue and chimney (Scheduled Monument) https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018211?section=official-list-entry