Mehal Mill
MEHAL MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158211
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mehal Mill
- Statutory Address:
- MEHAL MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158211
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mehal Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEHAL 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:
- MEHAL MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Keverne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 78029 22164
Details
ST KEVERNE SW 72 SE 3/98 Mehal Mill II Water mill, circa C18. Whitewashed rubble walls with half-hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys, asymmetrical 2 window front. 2-light casement window partly intact to left on ground floor with entrance to right of centre. Two 2- light casement windows with glazing bars on first floor. Rubble stone lean-to onleft-hand gable end. Ground rises up on right to facilitate loading. Steps up to first floor entrance in right-hand gable end. Machinery set low down near ground floor in shallow cog pit. Water wheel, axle and most ironwork missing. Existing wooden gears and 2 pairs of grinding stones. Derelict. Originally on part of Traboe estate which extended into the adjoining parish of St Martin and was granted to monks of St Michaels Mount by Robert, Earl of Mortain about 1087. Mill Mehal, formerly Melyn Myhall meaning St Michael's Mill. Site dates from 1258. Sources: The Water Mills of St Keverne, Anthony Unwin, reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, New Series, Volume VII, part 4, 1977
Listing NGR: SW7802922164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64678
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Unwin, A, The Water Mills of St Keverne, ()
Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall in Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall, Vol. 7, (1977)
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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