Couch Mill
COUCH MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136701
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Couch Mill
- Statutory Address:
- COUCH MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136701
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Couch Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUCH 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:
- COUCH MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Boconnoc
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1488359146
Details
SX 15 NW BOCONNOC COUCHSMILL
6/11 Couch Mill
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GV II
Mill and mill house, late C18, remodelled in mid C19. Rendered rubble stone
and cob with steeply pitched rag slate roof and brick chimneys at gabled ends of
mill house. Projecting stack on left hand gable end. Shallower, slate roof with
gabled ends to unrendered mill adjoining on right.
Mill house; single depth, 2-room with cross passage plan. C19 extension to
rear. Almost symmetrical 3-window front. Two 2-light C20 timber casements with
glazing bars flanking partly glazed door with gabled porch on timber posts. 3-
gabled half dormers with 2-light timber casement windows and wavy bargeboards.
Mill; long 1½ storey building under slightly lower pitched roof with central
wide timber stable door and reused timber lintel over. Slate porch. Small single
pane window to left. Above, slightly to left, gabled half dormer window with 9-
pane fixed casement. Lean-to of stone and brick under corrugated roof to right.
Machinery includes 2 horizontal gearing systems preserved in cog pit. 2
millstones in-situ and sack hoist. 2 overshot waterwheels have been dismantled.
Mill has not been in commercial use since 1920s.
Source: An Introduction to Cornish Watermills, D E Benney 1972
Listing NGR: SX1488359146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60514
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Benney, D E, An Introduction to Cornish Watermills, (1972)
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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