The Wheel
THE WHEEL, CLIFFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097099
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Wheel
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHEEL, CLIFFORD STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05757/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097099
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Wheel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHEEL, CLIFFORD 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.
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:
- THE WHEEL, CLIFFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chudleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87071 79344
Details
CHUDLEIGH CLIFFORD STREET SX 8679 6/37 The Wheel
GV II
Water Mill converted to craft centre. Circa mid C19, on the site of an earlier mill complex, renovations of 1972. Local grey limestone rubble, colourwashed and gabled at ends ; right end stack. Rectangular plan. 3-storey mill building with a large backshot water wheel at the rear in working order. 3-bay symmetrical front to the road, the 3 storeys crowned by a gabled wooden hoist housing with a gabled doorway in the roof and a projecting wooden platform with timber rails, most of the timber appears to have been renewed. First floor doorway in centre with weatherboarding below. Ground and first floor windows have segmental heads and vertical glazing bars, the second floor windows have vertical glazing bars, the centre window with a timber lintel. The rear elevation is unrendered with brick arches to the first floor windows. Impressive backshot wheel, 20ft in diameter, was installed in 1860 with a cast iron outer rim forged at Ideford by a local blacksmith, Ivor Hall. The wheel has 20 oak spokes and 70 elm buckets. Interior Considerable survival of machinery in working order, including gearing, a late Victorian iron roller crusher and 2 winches. Stair altered during conversion to craft centre, roof trusses replaced after a fire of 1941 but the old charred trusses survive. The mill was last used for corn grinding in 1939. The wheel is said to be the largest working backshot wheel in the south of England.
Town Mills, Chudleigh (n.d.)
Listing NGR: SX8707179344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85293
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Town Mills Chudleigh, ()
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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