Arbury Mill

ARBURY MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1034971
Date first listed:
08-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Arbury Mill
Statutory Address:
ARBURY MILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1034971
Date first listed:
08-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Arbury Mill
Statutory Address 1:
ARBURY MILL

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ARBURY MILL

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP 34408 88555

Details

NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH ARBURY PARK SP38NW 4/29 Arbury Mill 08/09/87 - II

Watermill. Mid/late C18. Raised, altered and extended, bringing wheel under cover, mid C19. Sandstone rubble and English bond brick; raised and extended in Flemish bond brick of a different colour. Plain-tile roof. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Irregular. Left part is of brick. Narrow opening to mill wheel on left. Low opening, probably formerly to mill race, blocked with C19 bricks. Most openings throughout have brick segmental arches. Window above has timber lintel. Large blocked round arch opening has door inserted. First floor has 3-light casement with horizontal glazing bar immediately above arch, and plank door. Former cross gable is clearly visible in the brickwork. Lower right part retains cross gable. Rubble and brick, with remnants of render. Doorway and small opening. 3-light casement above. Roof collapsed. Rear, towards mill house (not included), is of one storey due to fall of site. Left range has doorway and window. Right range has former cross gable of rubble. C20 door. Interior: large timber undershot wheel. Lower range has brick vaulted ground floor. The mill, now disused, was entirely canal-fed. It is said by some to have been one of the sources of inspiration for George Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss'. (Dorothy Dodds and Kathleen Adams: The George Eliot Country, ppl6 and 18)

Listing NGR: SP3440888555

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
308567
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dodds, D, Adams, K, The George Eliot Country, (), 16+18

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 42 Warwickshire,

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Arbury Mill

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