Spring Valley Mill
Spring Valley Mill, Spring Valley Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112053
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Valley Mill
- Statutory Address:
- Spring Valley Mill, Spring Valley Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1112053
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Valley Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Spring Valley Mill, Spring Valley 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:
- Spring Valley Mill, Spring Valley Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ardleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03830 27745
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/09/2020
TM 02 NW
5/46
ARDLEIGH.
SPRING VALLEY LANE
Spring Valley Mill
17.11.66
GV
II*
Water mill, later adapted to steam, now empty. Late C18. Timber framed and weatherboarded. Red tiled roof of two levels, gambrelled to road (north) with lucom at apex. Painted brick ground floor. Two storeys and loft, lower south bays and lean-to. Cast iron overshot wheel.
Road face (north) with arched braces to gabled lucom, two open lights under, first floor vertically sliding sash window, vertically boarded door. South face. 2:1:1 first floor small paned vertically sliding sashes, moulded surrounds. Ground floor 1:1:0 similar windows. Two doors to north range and a door each to south range and south extension, all vertically boarded.
The machinery and interior of the mill are complete but not in working order. Overshot waterwheel with cast iron frame and wrought iron buckets, fed by a cast iron trough from the mill pond. The wheel shaft, pit wheel and wallower are cast iron, but the upright shaft and great spur wheel are of wood. The great spur wheel is of the old compass-arm construction with six arms passing through the upright shaft. There are three pairs of millstones on the first floor complete with cases and hoppers etc., underdriven from the spur wheel below. All tentering gear is present. Above the stones is a wooden crown wheel and layshaft, which drove the sack hoist above and any dressing machinery the mill may have had. The roof space is partitioned into bins, and contains the sack hoist, which could act through the external sack traps or the lucom.
Setting for the novel Treasure at the Mill by Malcolm Saville. Robert Deeves was the miller working for Bezaliel Angier of Colchester, 1796. (Erith,1978)
Listing NGR: TM0383027745
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120391
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Erith, F H, Ardleigh in 1796, (1978)
Booker, J, Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology, (1979)
Other
Information from V.C. Parmenter, E.C.C. Wheelwright.
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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