Lower Kennal Vale Mill
LOWER KENNAL VALE MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142058
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Kennal Vale Mill
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER KENNAL VALE MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142058
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Kennal Vale Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER KENNAL VALE 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:
- LOWER KENNAL VALE MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stithians
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 74798 37249
Details
SW 73 NW STITHIANS KENNAL VALE
2/263 Lower Kennal Vale Mill (formerly listed as Lower Kennal 17.1.80 Vale Mill and Stonebuilt Mill leet course)
GV II
Water mill for grinding grain. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate roof (partly replaced with corrugated asbestos) hipped at the front end, gable ends at the rear. Louvered ventilator over the ridge. Plan: Rectangular former grist mill with wheel-pit for former overshot wheel on the right-hand side. Later C19 extensions on the left-hand side. Hub of waterwheel and internal machinery intact. There is a large internal cast-iron gear wheel with wooden zaps; this wheel drives a smaller cog at either end from which there are drive shafts across the mill building (within an inaccessible basement) to drive a pair of stones and other machinery near the front of the mill and to drive other machinery including a grain cleaner behind. The original machinery is in situ but has been added to in the later C19 and C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Simple unaltered elevations. Front has wide first floor window opening. There are doorways into the left-hand side and a blocked doorway into the rear: gable end of the rear left-hand extension. Original rear: gable end has a ground floor window and loading doorways to the first floor and the attic. Interior: Floors, roof structure and fittings survive. The floors are on several levels. Part of the ground floor is a basement to house the axial drive shafts (see plan). The attic floor is high up in the roof space. There is a very complex arrangement of ductings, hoppers and both gear and belt driven machinery. Roof structure has lapped dovetailed struts.
Listing NGR: SW7479837249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66249
- 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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