MILL HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1153796
Date first listed: 15-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment: 03-Apr-1986
Statutory Address: MILL HOUSE
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Location
Statutory Address: MILL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Dorset
District: East Dorset (District Authority)
Parish: Wimborne St. Giles
National Grid Reference: SU0300611992
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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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.
End of official listing