Joylers Mill and Mill House
JOYLERS MILL AND MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056978
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Joylers Mill and Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- JOYLERS MILL AND MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056978
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Joylers Mill and Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- JOYLERS MILL AND MILL HOUSE, 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.
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:
- JOYLERS MILL AND MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44302 17596
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP MILL LANE (East side) ST41NW 2/119 Joylers Mill and Mill House
II
Mill and mill house. Mill recorded by 1313; present mill early C19, house late C19. Mill in Ham stone roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; clay pantiled roof over stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables. Three storeys with attic; 4 bays irregular fenestration. Chamfer-mullioned windows of 2 lights without labels, to bay 2 second floor, bays 1 and 3 first floor and 1, 2 and 3 ground floor: double doors in plain chamfered opening with heavy lintel between bay 1/2, and also pair to bay 2 first floor: to bay 4 a projecting timber and corrugated iron structure 2 storeys higher with cantilevered top, protecting a drive shaft, and to left a semi-circular arched doorway into waterwheel well: wheel and much machinery still in position. Attached to east gable a later single-storey building to match, and to west a 2-storey link to house, with double Roman clay tiled roof and doors at both levels, the lower segmental-arched. The house has stone plinth, red brick in stretcher bond with yellow brick window arches and upper band course, overhung gabled Welsh slate roof, brick chimney stacks: 2 storeys, 3 bays: casement windows with segmental arched heads; doorway in lower bay 2 to match, verandah along front. Interiors not seen. The mill wheel undershot, and assisted by a small turbine: the leat now filled in: milling ceased about 1930 (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4430217596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264203
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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