West Mill
WEST MILL, WEST MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110656
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- West Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WEST MILL, WEST MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110656
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- West Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST MILL, WEST MILL LANE
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:
- WEST MILL, WEST MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63174 15387
Details
The following entry shall be added:
WEST MILL LANE 1. 1625 West Mill ST 6315 6/373 II 2. Early C18 replacing earlier mill. Worked commercially until 1950's. The only surviving mill in Sherborne. Sits directly on the river Yeo. Small square 2 storey building in hamstone rubble. 2 windows to west. Pit wheel and gable light to south. Raised door (to upper floor) and window above blocked doorway to east. North wall rebuilt. Wooden lintels. New roof. Former miller's house to north removed recently. To north-west is a very large late C19 bread oven with brick lined vault, which was formerly behind the miller's house but is all that survives of the building. Surviving machinery includes the pit-wheel (1877), a considerable amount of gearing and various mill-wheels etc. Outside to east is a pulley wheel formerly to take drive from a steam-engine when the river was sluggish. Breakwater for pit wheel and sluice walls probably repaired 1877. The mill has recently (Feb 1979) been restored by the boys of Sherborne School who intend to return it to use as a mill with exhibition space etc to north.
Listing NGR: ST6317415387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104192
- 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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