Gatcombe Mill
GATCOMBE MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129058
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gatcombe Mill
- Statutory Address:
- GATCOMBE MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129058
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gatcombe Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATCOMBE MILL
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:
- GATCOMBE MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Ashton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52201 70079
Details
1. 5121 LONG ASHTON GATCOMBE MILL
ST 57 SW SP/86 0/86
2. Watermill, now disused. Early C19. Limeworked rubble, brick window heads, pantile roofs, cast and wrought iron and timber machinery. West elevation: 3 storeys, 6 windows, all under segmental heads, some have 3-light casements, some are blank, off- centre left is door, repeated immediately above, off-centre right is a large segmental headed cast entry, hipped roof; large lean-to on south elevation, one eaves window to north; rear elevation, built into hillside shows 2 storeys, plain windows to right and left of entry sluice from mill pond. Interior: remarkably complete machinery including at ground floor an overshot cast iron wheel with wrought iron buckets, adjacent pit wheel has applewood teeth, great spurwheel has C20 guard, stone nut with lifting mechanism intact; on stone floor above are 2 stones with runs, an auxiliary shaft (now guarded), water through a cast iron launder with regulator; on second floor is a sack hoist shaft and drum, associated traps are complete throughout, various bins and an extractor fan.
Listing NGR: ST5220170079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33603
- 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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