Poughill Mill

POUGHILL MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141855
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Poughill Mill
Statutory Address:
POUGHILL MILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141855
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Poughill Mill
Statutory Address 1:
POUGHILL 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
POUGHILL MILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bude-Stratton
National Grid Reference:
SS2311207448

Details

SS 20 NW BUDE-STRATTON POUGHILL

5/211 Poughill Mill
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- II

Watermill. Circa early C19. Stone rubble with slate roof with gabled ends. Mill
with overshot wheel. 3 storeys. 1 window front. Entrance through double timber
doors in left gable end. 2-light timber opening under timber lintel to first
floor. Wheel pit retains high wall. Iron framework of wheel intact. First floor
on wheel side has two 2-light openings, one light timber casements with vertical
glazing bars under timber lintels. Two similar 2-light timber openings to second
floor.
Interior: Ground floor has ten old millstones embedded in it. Horizontal-type
gearing intact. First floor retains 2 dressers with compartments for grading
grains. Second floor not inspected. Poughill Mill was in commercial use in 1948.
D E Benney. An Introduction to Cornish Watermills (1972), pp.95-96.


Listing NGR: SS2311207448

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
64795
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Benney, D E, An Introduction to Cornish Watermills, (1972), 95-96

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Poughill Mill

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