Cowlings Mill
COWLINGS MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141646
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cowlings Mill
- Statutory Address:
- COWLINGS MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141646
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cowlings Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWLINGS 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:
- COWLINGS MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 82986 40851
Details
SW 84 SW KEA COWLANDS
2/148 Cowlings Hill
GV II
Millers house and mill. C17 or earlier, remodelled in the C19 as 3 houses, and now 1 house. Painted slatestone rubble walls with oak lintels or shallow brick arches. Grouted scantle slate roof with large rubble stack to gable end, left, large lateral rubble stack to rear of right-hand room and smaller later rubble chimney over gable end right. Lean-to at either end with C20 roofs. Plan probably originally 3-room cross passage plan with room beyond hall to right, now within lean-to, remodelled in the C19 as watermill with accommodation to first floor and extended to rear to accommodate mill machinery. Parlour, left (west) then became a separate 1-cell house and the hall, to right of present (and probably original entrance position) became another single-cell house. Finally C20 remodelling of mill as lean-to and further lean-to added at left (west) end. 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3-window south front plus 1 window single-storey lean- to at left and 1-window single-storey wider lean-to at right. Circa early C19 hornless 16-pane sashes to main front and right. 2 doorways grouped towards middle with right-hand one blocked. C20 glazed gable ended porch with central doorway in front of left-hand doorway. Further doorway to left of mill front with circa early C20 top-glazed door with marginal panes. Round-headed arch with wide straight chamfer survives reused as window head to right- hand (east) end, probably the original door head. Rear has circa early C19 12-pane 2-light casement to first floor middle with surrounding walling rendered. Large lateral stack adjoins small rubble lean-to, within which can be seen corbelled first floor chimney breast to left of stack. Interior not inspected but said to have no early features visible. Mill retains some heavy timber work for machinery and there is reused chamfered stone fragment built into right-hand gable. A rare survival in this area of a C17 building with some original external features.
Listing NGR: SW8298640851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63432
- 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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