Job's Mill
JOB'S MILL, FIVE ASH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036427
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Job's Mill
- Statutory Address:
- JOB'S MILL, FIVE ASH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036427
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Job's Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- JOB'S MILL, FIVE ASH LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- JOB'S MILL, FIVE ASH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Veny
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87294 43085
Details
SUTTON VENY FIVE ASH LANE ST 84 SE (south side) 4/229 Job's Mill
II
Mill house, now detached house. C17, altered C19 and mid C20. Rubble stone, tiled roof with fishscale tiles, gable end stone stacks. 'L'-plan. Two-storey, 5-windowed front; casements. Central 3-storey gabled porch with Tudor-arched stone doorway and half-glazed door, pointed side lights with sashes. Three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement either side, flanking bays with 2-light mullioned casements, left-hand in blocked Tudor-arched opening. Brick segmental arch over mill race to right-hand side bay. First floor has five 2-light mullioned casements, including to first floor of porch; with hipped tiled canopy, formerly loft door, 1-light casement to porch gable. Roof has coped verges with kneelers. Right return has 2-light mullioned casement to ground floor and 1-light to first. Wing projecting to left of front is single storey service range with 2-light and 1-light casements, two gabled dormers with 3-light casements. Rear has central double glazed doors with cast-iron porch with fluted columns, 2-light casement either side and to side bays, the right-hand casement in blocked Tudor-arched opening, first floor has central French windows to cast-iron balcony and 3-light mullioned casement either side, side bays have 2-light mullioned casements. All casements are cast-iron latticed, probably mid C19. Interior altered 1950s for 5th Marquess of Bath and contains several fireplaces brought here from Longleat (q.v. Horningsham P.C.), early C19 white marble surround with paterae and one fine marble surround with rococo carving, reputed to be from a former agent's house in Warminster, but originally probably from Longleat House. C17 panelling and doors with cock's head hinges and butterfly hinges in drawing room. Stairs with stick balusters, wreathed and ramped handrail. Job's Mill was a grist mill, leased by Everett family of clothiers during C19 and ceased to operate early C20. (K. Rogers, Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills, 1976).
Listing NGR: ST8729443085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rogers, K H, Somerset and Wiltshire Woollen Mills, (1976)
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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