Kings Mill House

Kings Mill House, Kings Mill Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090977
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1955
List Entry Name:: Kings Mill House
Statutory Address:: Kings Mill House, Kings Mill Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1090977
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1955
List Entry Name:: Kings Mill House
Statutory Address 1:: Kings Mill House, Kings Mill Lane

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Kings Mill House, Kings Mill Lane

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Painswick
National Grid Reference:: SO 85986 08935

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 May 2021 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards

SO 80 NE 5/148 PAINSWICK KING'S MILL LANE (south side) King's Mill House

21.10.55

II Mill and Mill house. C18 and C19. Good squared and coursed limestone, stone slate and some concrete tile roofs. A complex building of several stages, now three sides of an open courtyard with mill building to right, and section to left formerly extending further to north. From entrance, courtyard side is left, Four storey gable with three-light broad casements, but at second floor is stone, chamfer mullion; centre-section, which has change of floor levels incorporated, in three storeys, with two three-light, over two single light and two two-light casements, and a C20 plank door in moulded surround.

Mill return, right has three storeys with two plain floor string courses; at second floor a nine-light casement with leading over 4 + 4 + 2 continuous window with two heavy mullions, and at ground floor two single lights. To the left an elliptical opening over the former mill race and in set-back section, a C20 entrance door. This wing has concrete tile roof outer, west front of mill has two rows pigeon openings under a continuous string, then two-, five- and two-light stone mullion casements to stopped hoods, over a two-light wood casement and large plank door; ground or semi-basement floor has large blocked elliptical arch, two-light and single-light casement. The right half has plain string over ground floor. Left gable return build against high embankment, has pair of C20 doors giving to roof space. Outer facade to middle section has varied fenestration in two storeys, attic, and part basement including a five-light raking dormer, three-light casements, two C20, sashes in surrounds with keystone, and a C20 porch with oculus above. Three two-light recessed chamfer stone mullioned casements to basement include two now blocked. Gable to the right has three- and four-light casements, and the return wall has the upper parts in brickwork. Interior has been substantially modified, includes some C18 detail and chamfered beams to run-out stops. There are no early staircases.

This has been a major mill and house which has lost is integrity in a series of extensions or alterations, but still retaining substantial historic fabric. There was a water mill recorded here in 1495, was a cloth mill until the mid-C19, and became a pin mill in 1870.

Listing NGR: SO8598608935

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Legacy System number:: 133332
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hyett, FA , Glimpses of the History of Painswick, (1957)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.