Lake Mill and Attached Outbuildings

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ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON AVENING VALLEY

7/168 Lake Mill and attached outbuildings at Longfords Mills (Building Nos 22; 22a, 23, 24, 25 and 26)

GV II

The description shall be amended to read:

ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON AVENING VALLEY

7/168 Lake Mill and attached outbuildings Nos 22, 22A, 23, 24, 25 and 26)

GV

Mill buildings (Buildings 22, 22A and 23) with attached outbuilding range. Building 22 of 1806-9; engine-house (Building 22A) to left added c1814-16; Building 23 to right is 1806-14 addition; originally powered by water from newly-created lake. Coursed limestone rubble; concrete tile and diagonal asbestos roofs, stone slate to outbuildings. Four-storey rectangular-plan block to mill building with attached lower wings, 2-storey to west and 3-storey with attic to east. Single-storey outbuilding range to north-east forms L plan. South side: 7-window fenestration to central block, all with dressed segmental-arched surrounds to fixed lights. Central dressed round- arched doorway altered to window. Similar windows to flanking wings, some leaded casements. West wing (22A) has round-arched doorway and small niche at attic level in gable end containing bell; this is e v inscribed "Dame Alys Hamtan, A°MLV X , said to have been cast in 1515 and dedicated to a Benefactress of Minchinhampton, installed by William Playne in 1806. North elevation has similar segmental-arched fenestration as to south. Interior: springers and blocks indicate position of 3 former wheel pits to ground floor, which were served by a canal feeding round from the lake. Floors above all have a central row of octagonal posts showing evidence of shafting. 7-bay roof with lower trenched purlins, upper butt purlins and 2 collars; lower collars cogged for joists of storage floor; timber lintel over wide half-blocked opening to right gable. Building 22A has 2-bay roof with iron king-post truss and stone mounting block from former steam engine. Building 23 has 2-bay collar-truss roof with yoke to apex, and flue. Buildings 24, 25 and 26: Buildings 25 and 26 are early C19 with evidence of housing former water wheel to Building 25; linked c1830 by Building 24 (probably built for drying cloth) to Lake Mill. One storey, taller to Building 24, to higher ground level on west . 2- storey east elevation has segmental-arched half-blocked doors, blocked windows and C19 casements; mid C20 r.s.j. over wide window to centre right; lunette to centre. North gable end (of Building 26) had lunette above 2 early C19 plank double doors with strap hinges. Interior: Building 24 has early C19 teazle-raising gig and mid C19 two-bay king-post roof; Building 25 has early potting tanks (a process specific to the West of England), a crane and beams set on corbels; later C19 roof. History: Lake Mill was constructed soon after the creation of the large lake in 1806. The leat was taken from the lake (to the south east) to a pool to the north of the site. The engine house (22A) was built to house a Boulton and Watt steam engine, for which plans of 1814 survive; this building was reduced in height later in the C19. Notes made by William Playne around 1839-41 state that Building 24 was built in 1829 as a gig mill house with a drying house and coloured wool stove over, and that Buildings 25 and 26 were built as dyehouses in 1815 and converted for cloth steaming vats by 1839. (N.M. Herbert, "Minchinhampton", in V.C.H., Glos. xi. 1976, pp 184- 207; A T Playne, Minchinhampton and Avening. 1915; J Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, 1967; RCHN report, 1991)

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ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON AVENING VALLEY

7/168 Lake Mill and attached outbuildings at Longfords Mills (Building Nos 22, 22a, 23, 24, 25 and 26)

GV II

Mill building with attached outbuilding range. 1806. Coursed rubble limestone; concrete tile and diagonal asbestos roofs, stone slate to outbuildings. Four-storey block with attached lower wings, 2-storey to west end, 4-storey with attic to east. Single- storey outbuilding range forms L-plan. South side: 7-window fenestration to central block, all segmental arched with fixed lights. Central round arched doorway altered to window. Segmental arched casements to flanking wings, some leaded. East end: 2- window segmental arched casement fenestration. West end: small niche at attic level in gable end contains bell, probably that O L E V inscribed 'Dame Alys Hamton, A M V X ', said to have been cast in 1515 and dedicated to a Benefactress of Minchinhampton. Installed by William Playne in 1806. North side: segmental arched fenestration as to south side, later additions not of special interest. Attached outbuilding range has segmental arched doorway in north gable end, lunette window above. Interior not inspected. Built after completion of a large dam, creating Gatcombe Water and placed out of the direct line of flow, should the dam burst. (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 184- 207; A.T. Playne, Minchinhampton and Avening, 1915; and J. Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, 1967)

Listing NGR: ST8673499203

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132961

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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 184-207
Playne, A T, Minchinhampton and Avening, (1915)
Tann, J, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, (1967)

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