Mill House, Mill Cottage and Mill Wheel

MILL HOUSE, MILL COTTAGE AND MILL WHEEL, CHURCH END

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041650
Date first listed:
09-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:
Mill House, Mill Cottage and Mill Wheel
Statutory Address:
MILL HOUSE, MILL COTTAGE AND MILL WHEEL, CHURCH END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041650
Date first listed:
09-Jul-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
18-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Mill House, Mill Cottage and Mill Wheel
Statutory Address 1:
MILL HOUSE, MILL COTTAGE AND MILL WHEEL, CHURCH END

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
MILL HOUSE, MILL COTTAGE AND MILL WHEEL, CHURCH END

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

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Potterspury
National Grid Reference:
SP 76139 43290

Details

POTTERSPURY CHURCH END SP7642 (West side) 15/98 Mill House, Mill Cottage and 09/07/75 Mill Wheel (Formerly listed as Potterspury Mill (The Old Hill))

GV II

Water mill and mill house, now converted into 3 dwellings. c.1850-60 with C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, slate roof, brick ridge and end stacks. 3-storey, 5-window mill and 2-storey, 3-window mill house. The latter has 2-unit plan. Mill and mill house are both under sane roof. Former mill (Hill House) has C20 windows and door in original openings with round-arched brick heads. Slate-hung gabled hoist over centre above eaves. Red-brick lean-to extension to right. Former mill house to left (Mill Cottage) on higher ground has central C20 door and 12-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floor, except for small central 1st floor window, all with segmental-arched brick heads. Brick corbelled eaves to whole block. Gabled wing to rear of former mill (Mill Wheel) has similar fenestration, probably former engine house, with tall rebuilt red-brick chimney adjacent. No machinery survives. Originally water-powered, the mill also had steam power. Built to serve the Grafton estate.

Listing NGR: SP7613943290

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
235335
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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