Hicks Mill
HICKS MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140910
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hicks Mill
- Statutory Address:
- HICKS MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140910
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hicks Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- HICKS 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:
- HICKS MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gwennap
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 76725 41095
Details
GWENNAP COOMBE SW 74 SE 5/137 Hicks Mill 10.10.85 GV II Water Mill. Circa late C18 - early C19. Lime-washed killas rubble walls. Some cob. Timber lintels. Half-hipped grouted scantle slate roof over main building and partly scantle slate to north range. Corrugated iron over east range with hip to east. L- shaped group of buildings. Rectangular 2 storeys over basement mill with overshot wheel to south and to west. 2 storey rectangular range to east adjoining further single storey rectangular building, formerly stables. Further irregular single- storey range to north. North wall has door and window openings to single-storey stables left. Earlier irregular barn, middle, probably the original mill building, has irregularly disposed openings. Original ground and first floor ventilator windows between. Larger windows to right. Present mill circa early C19 has later lean-to to ground floor obscuring central doorway. Small window openings midway to first and second floors. Small window to west wall, first floor left. South wall has small window to first floor, right, and doorway to middle of upper floor approached by simple wooden bridge. East wall adjoining earlier mill is of stud-work construction clad in corrugated iron; probably formerly weather-boarded or slate-hung. Interior of mill is virtually complete with original floors, roof structure and machinery. 2 sets of stones in-situ, but 1 stone removed from that to west. Hoisting wheel or whim to first floor. Formerly at least 6 watermills in this valley but this is the best surviving example, complete with 2 wheels and associated buildings.
Listing NGR: SW7672541095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63235
- 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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