Ashton Mill
ASHTON MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097818
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ASHTON MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097818
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHTON MILL
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:
- ASHTON MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX8424984301
Details
SX 88 SW
5/27
11.11.52
ASHTON
LOWER ASHTON
Ashton Mill
GV
II
Mill, incorporating former cottage, now used as store. C18 or earlier with C19
alterations. Granite and freestone rubble and cob, weatherboarded in the gable ends;
corrugated iron roof, gabled at ends; projecting end stack with set-offs and
truncated brick shaft.
Plan: Rectangular on plan: the mill, to the west, with a disused C20 undershot
waterwheel (leat still intact); the former cottage to the east.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. The west elevation preserves an iron undershot wheel
with timber arms and iron floats, wheel made by Steiner and Tunn Ltd, Tiverton.
Section of good dressed coursed granite masonry construction adjacent to and
downstream of the wheel; 2 ground floor 2-light windows, the left hand window with
C19 brick dressings and lapped glass. 4 small first floor 1-light windows with C19
brick dressings and lapped glass plus one small square window to the left; 1-light
window in gable. The left return has a doorway approximately in the centre, a 1-
light ground floor window and a 2-light first floor C19 timber casement with glazing
bars. The rear elevation preserves the stack of the former cottage, flanked by
doorways with a window and first floor doorway to the left and a first floor doorway
to the right.
The sluice gate is fixed to grooved granite posts.
Interior: Not inspected. The present owners have a complete list of owners and
occupiers of the mill from 1780 to the present day.
Forms a good group with the miller's cottage, visible from the Chudleigh Road across
the Teign.
Listing NGR: SX8424984301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85548
- 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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