Clun Mill

CLUN MILL, MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1054460
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Clun Mill
Statutory Address:
CLUN MILL, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1054460
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Clun Mill
Statutory Address 1:
CLUN MILL, MILL 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.

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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:
CLUN MILL, MILL LANE

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Clun
National Grid Reference:
SO 30358 81265

Details

SO 3081-3181 CLUN C.P. MILL LANE (South-east side)

13/168 Clun Mill -

GV II

Watermill, now youth hostel. Early C19, extended and re-equipped in the mid-C19 (John Poundley, engineer). Coursed limestone rubble; H- plan slate roof with asymmetrically twin-gabled front, 2 storeys to right and 2 storeys and attic to left. 4-window front; 2-light segmental-headed wooden casements (first floor to right probably replacing loft door - see straight joints beneath); central half- glazed segmental-headed door, door to right blocked in late C20 and replaced with wooden cross casement, ground floor and first floor segmental-headed 2-leaf boarded doors to left. 4 tie-plates between floors to right; small wooden hatch beneath second ground floor window from left, formerly for accommodating a belt drive to external machinery. Interior: complete fittings including grain bins in attic, brackets for shafting on the first floor, ground floor with internal horizontal reaction wheel, 3 pairs of stones in Hurst frame driven from beneath (housing lettered: "COTTON AND DAVIES/22, CHEAPSIDE, LIVERPOOL"); sluice wheel; various pieces of additional machinery including a grain separator, a scalper (grader) and a smutter (cleaner); right-hand wing with ground floor stable (now washroom), grain store above, and grain drier at rear with brick-vaulted oven and refractory-brick drying floor above. Clun Mill formerly had an external undershot paddle wheel to the South-east, but was altered to its present form in 1850 under the direction of John Poundley, the engineer responsible for work on the Leighton Estate (Montgomeryshire). The mill ceased working in 1926. B.O.E., Powys, Pp.117-9.

Listing NGR: SO3035881265

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Legacy System number:
257258
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of Wales: Powys, (1979), 117-9

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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