Bourne Mill
BOURNE MILL, BOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1123673
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bourne Mill
- Statutory Address:
- BOURNE MILL, BOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1123673
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bourne Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOURNE MILL, BOURNE 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:
- BOURNE MILL, BOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00565 23846
Details
1. BOURNE ROAD 995 ----------- Bourne Mill TM 02 SW 19/6 24.2.50.
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2. Built in 1591 by the Lucas family from the C12 and C13 materials of the destoryed of St John's Abbey (Bourne Ponds belonged to the Abbey) probably on the site of a former mill. Its elaborate character suggests that it was built for a fishing lodge. In the Cl7 it became a cloth mill (Dutch refugees) and was used as such until the mid C19, when it was converted to a corn mill. It is of 2 storeys and has elaborate Dutch gables at each end with curved and voluted off-sets mounted with pinnacles, and at the apex an octagonal chimney stack. In the south Gable is a stone panel inscribed "Thomas Lucas, miles, me fecit Anne Domini 1591". There are original windows on the front with stone mullions and moulded labels, an original' doorway with square head, moulded label and moulded panel above with an achievement of the Lucas arms; there is a weather boarded C19 hoist loft. The interior, which has been converted into a dwelling house, retains the mill machinery - 3 great grindstones and the water wheel. An exceptional building and very pituresque. AM.
Listing NGR: TM0056523846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116864
- 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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