Mill House
MILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153796
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- MILL HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153796
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL HOUSE
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:
- MILL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimborne St. Giles
- National Grid Reference:
- SU0300611992
Details
WIMBORNE ST GILES
SU 01 SW and SU 0311 WIMBORNE ST GILES' VILLAGE
13/113 and 6/113 Mill House (formerly
15.3.55 listed as Brook House)
GV II
Possibly originally a paper mill, an inn in the C19, now a private house.
English-bond brickwork with tiled roofs and gable copings. Brick projecting
stack with 2 diagonally set flues bearing traces of arabesque decoration
in cement above. Further stack with 4 clustered flues on the ridge, right
of centre. Near symmetrical. 2 storeys and attics, 6 bays. 2 central bays
are surmounted by a gable with coping, apex finial and brick kneelers. Much
restored stone mullioned windows with square-headed lights and labels.
Those to the ground floor have sunk-chamfered surrounds and those to the
upper floor are ovolo-moulded. Gable has similar 3-light window. Central
elliptical-headed chamfered stone doorway. A mill race formerly passed
under the left-hand end of the structure.
Internal features (RCHM): left ground floor rooms have intersecting ceiling
beams, now cased but said to be unmoulded; central room has open fireplace
with plain timber bressummer and lightly chamfered stone jambs; first floor
rooms have plain beams resting on shaped brackets; roof of 4 plain collar-
beam trusses. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 98, no. 14. Newman, J and Pevsner, N.
The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 470).
Listing NGR: SU0300611992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107448
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 98
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 470
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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