The Water-mill at Sadborow Mill
THE WATER-MILL AT SADBOROW MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153400
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Water-mill at Sadborow Mill
- Statutory Address:
- THE WATER-MILL AT SADBOROW MILL
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- Date:
- 2001-11-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/05515/27
- Rights:
- © Mr Harold T. F. Jenkins. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153400
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Water-mill at Sadborow Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WATER-MILL AT SADBOROW 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:
- THE WATER-MILL AT SADBOROW MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorncombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37118 01026
Details
ST 30 SE THORNCOMBE SADBOROW 3/81 The Water-Mill at Sadborow Mill II Detached Water-Mill. Dated 1827: Keystone of top right window. Rubble walls with brick quoins and dressings. Roman tile roof, C20, hipped. Rectangle in plan. Two storeys. Three casements with renewed wooden frames and cills. Segment-headed window-arches with stone keys and some burnt headers. Two ground floor 'stable-doors' near centre, brick jambs and wooden lintels. Stone-floor: 'stable-door' with large iron hook over. Tall built-in wooden buffer beside 1 ground door. Mill-wheel on rear face: 22 ft overshot wheel, 6 r.p.m., originally driving 2 mill-stones, latterly 3. C19 wooden partitions and doors. Stone floor: 2 mill-stones extant, and full apparatus. Winnoning Box. The Mixing Room. (Scales etc not original to the mill). Bin-floor, with platform, shutes etc. The machinery is remarkably complete, and the mill have been working within the last two years. Full operations ceased in the 1950s. Mill-pond above to rear, fed from Sadborow estate spring. Source: Commander W J Eyre, owner.
Listing NGR: ST3711801026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104663
- 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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