Ford Flour Mill and Mill House, With Front Boundary Railings
FORD FLOUR MILL AND MILL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057151
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Flour Mill and Mill House, With Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- FORD FLOUR MILL AND MILL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, MILL LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-04-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/06641/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057151
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Flour Mill and Mill House, With Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD FLOUR MILL AND MILL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 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:
- FORD FLOUR MILL AND MILL HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Coker
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5355612962
Details
ST5312 EAST COKER CP MILL LANE
NORTH COKER
11/154 Ford Flour Mill and Mill House,
with front boundary railings
-
- II
Former watermill and mill house. Late C18. Ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings. Welsh slates over stone slate base
course between coped gables, with stone ridge; reconstructed stone end chimney stack. 3-storey, 6-bay South front.
Bays 1 and 2 have casement windows, the lower to bay 1 with timber shutter and probably of C18, to left a semi-circular
arched wheel recess; bay-3 has a stable door below and plain door above, bays 4, 5 and 6 form the mill house with
mostly casement windows at three levels, with entrance door in plain opening to bay 5 : ashlar flush bands to floor
levels, iron stay brackets to bays 4/5, lean-to at rear. Interior not seen. Wrought iron spear- headed railings 1
metre South of building, with matching gate, probably of early C19, contributing to setting. Mill incorporated a bakery
(the ovens now removed, according to owner), it closed in 1940, but the overshot wood waterwheel and most machinery
said to be still in position, stream now culverted. One of a chain of mills on the same stream, the sequence being
West Coker (qv), Holywell (not included in this list), Ford mill, Pavyotts (QV Mill House) and Turners Mill, Barwick
(surviving not 1 sted), before the stream joins the River Yeo.
Listing NGR: ST5355612962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263712
- 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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