Mill Cottage
MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1101076
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- Statutory Address:
- MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1101076
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Welwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24680 14849
Details
1. 5260 DIGSWELL LANE (north-west side) Mill Cottage TL 21 SW 1/17
II GV
2. Probably early C18, with part rebuilt in early C20. Formerly a mill and millers' house, now a dwelling. Two storeys in red and blue bricks with tile roof. Four windows, one to the right blocked, the others casements of 2 and 3 lights. Three casement windows of 3 lights to the ground floor with segmental heads. Modern door. The mill stream still flows to the left of this section beneath a flat archway with an early C20 canted oriel window above. The wheel and other machinery have been removed. To the left of this one window below a dormer and the rest of the mill premises, converted into living accommodation in the early C20 and slightly taller in build, with a canted oriel above 2 windows. Some original ceiling beams with chamfer remain to the right-hand section. There has been a mill on this site from the time of Domesday Book.
Listing NGR: TL2468014849
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 158235
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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