Melbury Abbas Mill

Melbury Abbas Mill, Redmans Lane, Melbury Abbas, SP7 0DB

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110280
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Melbury Abbas Mill
Statutory Address:
Melbury Abbas Mill, Redmans Lane, Melbury Abbas, SP7 0DB
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110280
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Melbury Abbas Mill
Statutory Address 1:
Melbury Abbas Mill, Redmans Lane, Melbury Abbas, SP7 0DB

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Melbury Abbas Mill, Redmans Lane, Melbury Abbas, SP7 0DB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Melbury Abbas
National Grid Reference:
ST 87737 20684

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/11/2018

ST 82 SE
8/233

MELBURY ABBAS
REDMANS LANE
Melbury Abbas Mill

(Formerly listed as Barfoot Mill, MILL HOLLOW LANE)

GV
II
Corn mill, early C19. Coursed rubble with ashlar and brick dressings. Slate roof, half-hipped to the left. Two storeys with irregular fenestration. Two and three light casements, some with full glazing bars, some with horizontal glazing bars and some with leaded-lights. Three segmentally headed openings to the left of the range, the outermost of which is enclosed. Plank ground and first-floor doors to the second bay from right. External cast-iron overshot waterwheel to right and wall inscribed 'E S Hindley 1875 Bourton Dorset'. Internally the machinery including two pairs of millstones is complete.

Listing NGR: ST8773720684

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
103024
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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