Stout Mill
STOUT MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098189
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stout Mill
- Statutory Address:
- STOUT MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098189
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stout Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOUT 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:
- STOUT MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yarcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 22878 11384
Details
YARCOMBE ST 21 SW 3/177 Stout Mill - - II Mill and mill house. Early-mid C19. Local stone and flint rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof. Plan: L-plan building. The house faces north and it has a 3-room plan. The end rooms are heated by gable-end stacks. The entrance lobby which contains the main stair is between the centre and right rooms. The main block continues to right (west) as the mill but the main mill is in a crosswing projecting to rear at the right end. The house is 2 storeys, the mill has 2 storeys with lofts. Exterior: the house has a 4-window front of original casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The left-hand 2 window section have flat stone arches over. The front doorway is right of centre and contains a C19 door. The narrow window over lights the stair. To right is the mill storage area. It has a door with a window to right and above a loading hatch with a window to right. The house and hill are gable-ended. Interior was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but the building appears to have had only minor modernisations. The mill is said to contain its original machinery and wheel. Stout Mill was used for flour milling. Source: M C Phillips and R E Wilson. Watermills in EAst Devon Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 34 (1978-81) pp 143-44. This gives a list of the mill's ownership and occupancy 1782-1931.
Listing NGR: ST2287811384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Phillips, M C, Wilson, R E, Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries in Watermills in East Devon, Vol. 34, (1978-81), 143-44
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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