Priory Mill
PRIORY MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043323
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Mill
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043323
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY MILL
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:
- PRIORY MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arlington
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 55737 09304
Details
ARLINGTON MILTON HIDE TQ 50 NE
18/502D The Mill to the south west of Michelham Priory GV II
the entry shall be amended to read;
TQ 50 NE ARLINGTON MILTON HIDE
18/502D Priory Mill
GV II
Water mill. Mid C16 3 bay timber-framed building refronted c1800. Exterior red brick with grey headers in English bond to ground floor, first floor weatherboarded, including gable end to east. Tiled roof, hipped to west. Two storeys; two windows. First floor has pivoting sashes, ground floor has fixed sashes. Central first floor plank door approached by wooden steps. Underneath is a c1800 fixed casement. Rear elevation has 2 openings with pintle hinges. Wooden water-wheel installed in 1972 during restoration of the mill, the former iron water-wheel of 1896 having been removed in 1924/5. Interior has roof of side purlin and wind-braced construction with raking queen strut and collar beam. Jowled posts and curved windbraces. The sack hoist mechanism is the only early feature to survive. The earliest record of a water mill at Michelham Priory was in 1434. This building appears on an estate map of 1667. [ROHAS Report no 1057 by David and Barbara Martin. Michelham Priory Water Mill leaflet.]
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ARLINGTON MILTON HIDE 1. 5208 The Mill to the south west of Michelham Priory TQ 50 NE 18/502D
II
2. C18. Two storeys. Two windows. Ground floor. Red brick, above weather-boarding. Hipped tiled roof. Probably C17 or earlier, refaced with red brick and grey headers alternately in 1714. Hipped tiled roof. Some casement windows, some sash windows with glazing bars intact. Two-storeyed gabled porch with a stone in the gable inscribed with the initials M.G.A. and the date 1714. Brick chimney breast on north wall.
Listing NGR: TQ5573609308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 294968
- 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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