Baythorne Mill

BAYTHORNE MILL, MILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122344
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1976
List Entry Name:
Baythorne Mill
Statutory Address:
BAYTHORNE MILL, MILL ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1122344
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1976
List Entry Name:
Baythorne Mill
Statutory Address 1:
BAYTHORNE MILL, MILL ROAD

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:
BAYTHORNE MILL, MILL ROAD

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Birdbrook
National Grid Reference:
TL 72338 43012

Details

TL 74 SW BIRDBROOK MILL ROAD 3/9 Baythorne Mill 9/1/76

GV II

Water mill, C18, extended in C19, now a house. Painted brick, Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slates. Aligned NW-SE, aspect NE, with axial chimney stack at SE end. 2-storey C19 weatherboarded extension with slate roof at SE end. C19 steam engine house at NW end, with tall round chimney on square base to rear. Single-storey extension beyond, now a double garage. 2 storeys with attics. Halved boarded door and half-glazed door, one C18 casement window, 3 reproduction windows in original arched apertures. Double boarded doors over wheel-race. First floor has C20 central french windows and balcony. 2 C18 casement windows and 2 C20 casement windows in original arched apertures. String course at first-floor level, dentils under eaves, gambrel roof. Boldly projecting lucom with 2 C18 casement windows in it, and 2 swept dormers with C18 casement windows. SE extension has a half-glazed door, one C20 casement window on each floor, and scalloped eaves trim. All windows of engine house C20. Mill wheel present, not in operational order, under glass cover. Interior has exposed beams and joists on both floor, mostly original. Most of the windows, back and front, are original, with hardwood frames, wrought iron casements, and rectangular leaded glazing, with some early glass. (Some are repaired or restored in C20). Individually these are becoming rare, and a substantial set of them in their original context is particularly valuable.

Listing NGR: TL7233843012

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Legacy System number:
114081
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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