Sutton Mill
SUTTON MILL, 97, SUTTON ROAD, SUTTON POYNTZ, WEYMOUTH, DT3 6LW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148077
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Sutton Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SUTTON MILL, 97, SUTTON ROAD, SUTTON POYNTZ, WEYMOUTH, DT3 6LW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148077
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Sutton Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUTTON MILL, 97, SUTTON ROAD, SUTTON POYNTZ, WEYMOUTH, DT3 6LW
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:
- SUTTON MILL, 97, SUTTON ROAD, SUTTON POYNTZ, WEYMOUTH, DT3 6LW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY7063083739
Details
SY7083
873-1/9/523
WEYMOUTH
Sutton Poyntz
SUTTON ROAD (West side)
No.97, Sutton Mill
(Formerly Listed as: SUTTON ROAD, Sutton Poyntz, Sutton Mill)
12/12/53
GV
II
Detached house, formerly water mill. c1820. Flemish bond brickwork, with some English bond in upper walling, and rubble plinth, slate mansard roof.
PLAN: the mill is set gable to the road, with the River Jordon beyond its W end, the leat and drive in the bay adjoining the river, and the overflow at the E end emerging beyond the Old Mill House (qv No.95). The lower ground floor contains the wheel and machinery, and entrance, on the N side, is at the upper ground floor level.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 3 windows, all replacement small-pane casements. On the S side, facing downstream, there are 4 rooflights, and the lower levels have three 3-light casements to slight cambered heads in half-brick. The lowest level has a hatch at the left-hand end, and a plank door to the right. High on the corner to the road is a stone sundial, set diagonally. The road gable has a small vent above a boarded and gabled hauling-way on brackets to stone corbels, 2-light casements at ground and econd floor and a plank door at first floor. The N side is approached by a small bridge over the leat escape, with 3 rooflights above 2 wide-spaced 3-light at first and second floors, with a central door at first-floor level. The lower level has wide segmental arched openings over the waterways. To the left, adjacent to the road, is a gabled 2-storey wing with tilehanging. The W front has a window and door, and the N a loading door bove a wide garage door. The gable to the river has a small vent above 2-light casements; those at first and second floors have boarded panels below, and at the lowest level is a door.
INTERIOR: carefully restored in the 1980s, when it was converted to domestic use. The lower ground floor has some of the original post and beam structure, with some inserted steel, and the very broad iron overshot wheel, which can still be operated; this has a diameter of approx 2.5m and approx 3.5m width, in 3 sections. The stones are not in-situ, and the drive shaft has been removed, but some cogs and framework remain. The upper floors have heavy main beams and many early joists, but the roof is restructured and fully ceiled.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Thomas Hardy, in a letter of 1910 wrote: 'Overcombe Mill (in The Trumpet Major) is a composite picture of Upwey (qv Upwey Mill) and Sutton Poyntz, containing features of both'.
Early C20 photographs show 2 casement dormers to the mansard on the S side. The mill had become derelict, and the restoration was recognised by the Weymouth Civic Society and awarded one of its plaques.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 362).
Listing NGR: SY7063083739
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467976
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 362
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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