Hingham Mill
HINGHAM MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143046
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hingham Mill
- Statutory Address:
- HINGHAM MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143046
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hingham Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- HINGHAM 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:
- HINGHAM MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egloshayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0202472512
Details
EGLOSHAYLE
SW 07 SW
4/10 Hingham Mill
26.9.84
GV II
Mill. Circa late C18 on site of early mill. Stone rubble with rear wall rebuilt
in concrete block. Rag slate roof with half hipped ends. Undershot water wheel
on left hand side.
Plan: Overall rectangular plan with central entrance, water wheel on left hand
side wall and entrance to low basement in rear. Mill race @ 5m long and up to
1.5m wide leads in to wheel from adjacent road on entrance side; lined with stone,
some cement rendering, two stone steps at road end.
Exterior: Two storey front elevation with circa C20 porch and 2-light casement
to right and left. Rear elevation with stone rubble wall rebuilt in concrete
block above basement. 3 2-light casements on ground and first floor. Timber
undershot wheel on left, partly rebuilt in C20; socketted to metal hub, revolving
on an iron axial shaft.
Interior: Complete working machinery remains. Horizontal gearing operating
2 French Buhr runnerstones.
A full description of the machinery is given by Benney, and Henderson provides
a history of the mill, mentioned as fulling mill in 1420 and recorded in the
Rent Rolls of the Manor of Bernier (qv Berniere) in 1540.
The mill is complete retaining full working machinery and has an undershot wheel
which is especially unusual in Cornwall.
Benney, D E An introduction to Cornish Waterwheels 1972
Henderson, C 'Tucking Mills. Sites of Ancient Industry in the Duchy', Western
Morning News and Mercury, April 26 1928.
Henderson, C Essays in Cornish History, 1963.
Listing NGR: SX0202472512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 67644
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Benney, D E, An Introduction to Cornish Watermills, (1972)
Henderson, C, Essays in Cornish History, (1963)
Western Morning News and Mercury in 26 April, (1928)
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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