Wheelhouse at Thoresway Water Mill

WHEELHOUSE AT THORESWAY WATER MILL, MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1063480
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Wheelhouse at Thoresway Water Mill
Statutory Address:
WHEELHOUSE AT THORESWAY WATER MILL, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1063480
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Wheelhouse at Thoresway Water Mill
Statutory Address 1:
WHEELHOUSE AT THORESWAY WATER MILL, MAIN STREET

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

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:
WHEELHOUSE AT THORESWAY WATER MILL, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Thoresway
National Grid Reference:
TF1657496675

Details

TF 19 NE
4/58A

THORESWAY
MAIN STREET
(south side)
Wheelhouse at Thoresway Water Mill

II

Wheelhouse of watermill. 1816. Colourwashed red brick, pantile
roof with tumbled gables and dentillated eaves. Single
storey. Doorway to right with segmental head and plank door.
Small opening at ground level, to left with wooden lintel. Small
opening above, with segmental head. Opening to left with
segmental head and plank shutter. Round black and yellow metal
disc to left with mileage to Market Rasen and London. Bricked up
oculus above. Oculi in both gables, lower opening of millrace in
south wall partially blocked. Waterwheel inside partially
intact. Originally the machinery ran under the road to building
on otherside, now a farm building.

Listing NGR: TF1657496675

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
196416
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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