Alderford Mill
ALDERFORD MILL, ALDERFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122888
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Alderford Mill
- Statutory Address:
- ALDERFORD MILL, ALDERFORD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122888
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Alderford Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALDERFORD MILL, ALDERFORD STREET
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:
- ALDERFORD MILL, ALDERFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sible Hedingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 78482 33918
Details
TL 7833
11/216
SIBLE HEDINGHAM
ALDERFORD STREET (North side)
Alderford Mill
21.6.62
II*
Water mill. C18. Timberframed and weatherboarded. Red tiled gambrel roof with two gabled
dormers to east and west and gabled weatherboarded hoist loft to south. Two storeys and loft. South
face, three-light ground floor windows, vertically boarded first floor door, small-paned window to
hoist loft. East face has angled two storey weatherboarded extension to left with corrugated iron
roof, single storey red brick slate extension to right with dog tooth eaves cornice and round-headed
iron window with glazed margins. C20 single storey infill lean-to between these extensions. Two
3-light windows to first floor, small paned casements to dormers. North face has three 2 window
ranges with an apex window of various small paned casements, casements with transoms and pivot
casements. Brick facing to base. West face has small single storey weatherboard and grey slate gabled
extension to south with entrance door and small paned casement. Brick facing to north base. Two
window range to ground floor, that to right now blocked. Vertically boarded door. Three
small-paned vertically sliding sash windows to flint floor. Two small paned windows to door. Interior
has complete machinery, including probably C17 wooden undershot wheel, great compass arm,
great spur wheel and wooden vertical shaft. C19 cast iron wallower. First floor has 2 pairs of
millstones, vertical shaft and wooden crown wheel driving layshaft with pulleys. Second floor has
grain bin partitions and pulleys.
Listing NGR: TL7848233918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114733
- 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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