Houghton Mill
HOUGHTON MILL, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128403
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Mill
- Statutory Address:
- HOUGHTON MILL, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128403
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUGHTON MILL, MILL 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:
- HOUGHTON MILL, MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Houghton and Wyton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2816071975
Details
HOUGHTON AND WYTON
1.
5140
TL 2871
14/1
24.10.51
MILL STREET
(south side)
Houghton
Houghton Mill
II*
GV
2.
C17 water mill, rebuilt and extended in C18 and C19. Three-storeys and attics. Gault
brick, red brick and two inch brick. Part timber-framed and weather-boarded with plain
tile roof and gabled gantries. Pivot hung windows with glazing bars. Modern external
wooden fire staircase with two landing stages. Open, through passage to right of centre
with foot bridges on either side of mill spanning two weirs. Three original, breast-
driven wheels removed in 1931 and replaced by modern sluices.
Interior: Three pairs of grinding stones still in situ on grinding floor with other
mill machinery intact; storage bins and shoots at first and second-floor levels.
Original staircase, floors and trap-doors.
Mills have been recorded on this site since 974. The present mill replaces one burnt
down in C17. It ceased to work in 1930 and became a Youth Hostel in 1934. In 1939 it
was given to the National Trust. It is now the only surviving watermill on the
River Ouse in the old county of Huntingdonshire. It is noted for its picturesque setting
and is frequented by landscape artists.
(Ref P.G.M. Dickinson, 1973)
(RCHM Huntingdonshire Mon 6 p 144).
Listing NGR: TL2816071975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54103
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 144
Dickinson, P G M, Houghton and Wyton, (1973)
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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