Goldhill Mill

GOLDHILL MILL, THREE ELM LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070417
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:
Goldhill Mill
Statutory Address:
GOLDHILL MILL, THREE ELM LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070417
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:
Goldhill Mill
Statutory Address 1:
GOLDHILL MILL, THREE ELM 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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GOLDHILL MILL, THREE ELM LANE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:
Hadlow
National Grid Reference:
TQ 63635 48457

Details

HADLOW THREE ELM LANE, GOLDEN GREEN TQ 64 NW 6/100 Goldhill Mill 20.10.54

II

Mill and miller's house. Early C19, parts (particularly in the mill) are C18. House is Flemish bond red brick with some burnt headers; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof. The mill is timber-framed; ground floor level is underbuilt with English bond brick and exposed frame above is brick-nogged; peg-tile roof.

Plan: The mill house faces south overlooking its garden. It has a double depth plan with front and back room either side of central passage which contains the main stair at the front. Front rooms have end stacks and rear left (west) room, originally the kitchen, has a rear stack backing onto the mill. The mill itself is a long building on a north south axis behind the house with the wheel house over a stream at the north end.

2 storeys and mill house has attics.

Exterior: House has a symmetrical 3-window front arranged about a central doorway which contains a C19 9-panel door, fanlight with radial glazing bars and panelled reveals. Outer bays contain 16-pane sash windows and 12-pane sash at first floor centre. Tall hipped roof contains a single front flat- roofed dormer window. The right (east) side of the house contains casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass. More similar windows on the left side but front rooms have 12-pane sashes. The mill faces west onto a courtyard. Left of centre the doorway contains an early C19 part-glazed 5-panel door with flat hood on raking struts. All the windows are C20 casements with glazing bars. Old photographs in the possession of the owner show the mill weatherboarded at first floor level with loading hatch doorways each end and sash windows between. Mill roof is half-hipped.

Interior: Mill house contains C19 joinery detail including a stick baluster stair. The main body of the mill has C18 carpentry; chamfered beams with roll stops and tie-beam trusses with staggered butt purlins. C19 wheel house contains a breast shot wheel dated 1848 and some of the contemporary gearing mechanism.

Listing NGR: TQ6363548457

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
179536
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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