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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Date:: 2001-06-18
Reference:: IOE01/04521/13
Rights:: © Mr JE Leeson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.