× A TIRELESS campaign spearheaded by the passionate owner of what is believed to be the borough’s oldest in-use building - to have its Grade II listing upgraded - has been backed by a Barnsley MP.
The Mill of the Black Monks, on Grange Lane, was built by and for the Cluniac monks in roughly 1150AD to service the adjacent Monk Bretton Priory.
Owner Malcolm Lister, who is 83, is seeking to have his ‘labour of love’ building’s grading revised to the more prestigious Grade II which will pave the way to access fresh funding streams and give it more exposure to visitors via Historic England.