Sheene Mill
SHEENE MILL, 39, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127549
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sheene Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SHEENE MILL, 39, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127549
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sheene Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEENE MILL, 39, STATION 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:
- SHEENE MILL, 39, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3801644907
Details
TL 3844
24/209
MELBOURN
STATION ROAD
(South west side)
Sheene Mill (No. 39)
GV
II
Water mill, now a restaurant. Late C17, extended C20. Timber framed,
weatherboarded, and underbuilt in brick, now painted, in 1833 (dated brick in
rear wall). Half hipped, tiled roof with inserted stacks. Three bay plan
with narrower bay for the undershot wheel, now removed. Two storeys and
attic. Mid C20 dormers to rear wall. Small pane mid-C20 casements to front
and ground storeys and door of similar period in round headed arch. Inside::
side purlin roof with timbers of substantial scantling to principals. Some
inserted ceiling timbers e.g. at ground floor in the hall, but the main posts
are original and have jowled heads. A watermill is recorded here in Domesday
Book. It is associated with Sheene Manor, Meldreth (q.v.), nearby which was
given to the Carthusian monastery at Sheen, Surrey in early C15. At the
Dissolution it passed to Sir Robert Chester of Royston.
Dr. W.M. Palmer: Sheene Manor, Meldreth (Cambs. & Hunts. Arch. Soc. 1922)
Dr. D. Mills: Early History of Meldreth
Listing NGR: TL3801644907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mills, D, Early History of Meldreth, ()
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society Transactions in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society Transactions, (1922)
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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