The Old Mill, Waterwheel And Aqueduct

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ST42NE LONG SUTTON KNOLE CAUSEWAY (North Side) 6/165 KNOLE The Old Mill, waterwheel and aqueduct - GV II

Water-powered corn mill with house. c1879. Local lias stone cut and squared; double Roman clay tiled roof with plain verges; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4-bay house and 2-bay mill, fenestration irregular. Late C20 small-pane casement windows, mostly under deep stone lintols, with C20 doors and porches. Cast iron wheel, 3.5m diameter, on north gable of building, by a Martock foundry, last turned 1968 but undergoing repair 1984; wheel bactshot driven from an iron plated aqueduct on stone piers some 35 metres long. Inside much machinery still in position for the grain mill, also a cider press, undergoing restoration September, 1984. The adjoining 3-bay property, The Granary, on south gable much altered and not of special interest. The Knole Mill recorded by 1479-80, but it was removed from a site higher upstream about 1870 (VCH vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4829625128

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1876 IOE Records taken by Graham Slocombe; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Graham Slocombe. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project