Wiston Mill

WISTON MILL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1033616
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:
Wiston Mill
Statutory Address:
WISTON MILL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1033616
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1978
List Entry Name:
Wiston Mill
Statutory Address 1:
WISTON MILL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WISTON MILL, NAYLAND WITH WISSINGTON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Nayland-with-Wissington
National Grid Reference:
TL 96233 33282

Details

Nayland with Wissington 1. 5377 Wiston Mill, Wiston TL 93 SE 15/599 II*

2. A fine C18-C19 timber-framed and weatherboarded watermill no longer in use and partly converted into a dwelling. A mill has been on the site from the C16 and the mill race, over which the mill is built contains Tudor brickwork. fit the south end there is the remains of a water wheel. The mill comprises a gabled centre part of 3 storeys and loft with loft hoists on the east and west ends and 2-storeyed side wings. 1:2:1 window range, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground storey is of brick. At the north end a C16 timber-framed and plastered house extends east and west it was altered into cottages, probably in the C18 and was incorporated into the mill house in the C20. A short wing joins the C16 block with the mill. The windows are C20 casements with leaded lights. The interior has exposed timber-framing ceiling beams and joists. The roofs of the mill are slate and of the old house, tiled. The mill stands over a brick bridge with the mill lade on the east side. This brickwork incorporates C16 brick of an earlier mill. At the east front of the mill the bridge is paved with granite setts. The C19 mill machinery still remains in the interior.

Listing NGR: TL9623333282

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
278351
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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