Stable Block Approximately 30 Metres South East of Great Bardfield Watermill
STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT BARDFIELD WATERMILL, MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123442
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block Approximately 30 Metres South East of Great Bardfield Watermill
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT BARDFIELD WATERMILL, MILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123442
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block Approximately 30 Metres South East of Great Bardfield Watermill
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT BARDFIELD WATERMILL, 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.
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:
- STABLE BLOCK APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF GREAT BARDFIELD WATERMILL, MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 68016 31110
Details
TL 63 SE GREAT BARDFIELD MILL ROAD (north side)
3/198 Stable block approx. 30 metres south-east of Great Bardfield Watermill
GV II
Stable block. Early C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with red clay Roman tiles. Long building of one storey, facing W. Comprises (from left to right) one open bay with modern timber lintel (now a garage), 3 stalls with halved door and 2 slatted windows, loose box with double doors, byre with halved door and one slatted window, and cartshed of 2 open bays. Single-storey lean-to extensions at both ends. The floor is of small yellow bricks. Boarded roof of low pitch, with 2 through-purlins to each pitch, on queen-strut trusses of imported pine with iron king ties and screwed bolts at the eaves angles. Apart from minor alterations to the left bay this building has survived in original form, complete with all original internal fittings. Timber partitions between the 3 stalls, feeding troughs supported on elliptical brick arches, iron hay racks. The byre has feeding troughs and neck posts for 3 cattle, and 2 small pens with feeding troughs for calves or goats. A rare survival. 'Thomas Samuel Smith worked the roller flour mill into the 1930s and re-opened it during World War Two. He ran the stone mill till within a few years of his death at the age of 98 in 1950......using to the end horse waggons of which he was particularly proud' (Hervey Benham, Some Essex Watermills, 1976, 55). Listed for its exceptionally complete'condition, and for Group Value with the Mill and Mill House.
Listing NGR: TL6799031135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115337
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Benham, H, Some Essex Water Mills, (1976), 55
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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