Crowan Mill

CROWAN MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160182
Date first listed:
01-May-1970
List Entry Name:
Crowan Mill
Statutory Address:
CROWAN MILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1160182
Date first listed:
01-May-1970
List Entry Name:
Crowan Mill
Statutory Address 1:
CROWAN MILL

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CROWAN MILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Crowan
National Grid Reference:
SW 64417 34328

Details

SW 63 SW CROWAN CROWAN

4/142 Crowan Mill - 1.5.70 GV II

Mill and millhouse. The millhouse probably C18 and the mill circa mid-late C19. Granite rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones and lintels; the house is moorstone, the mill has slate sills. Scantle slate roofs: the house has rendered chimneys over its gable ends. The much taller mill adjoins the left hand gable end of the house and has a hipped roof at right angles to the front. Plan : double depth 2 storey house with cross passage between the 2 front rooms. At the left hand side a 3 storeys over basement rectangular mill projecting farther at the rear. The overshot wheel and its bearing wall adjoin on the left hand side. The wheel has wooden buckets, and an inner cog wheel toothed in applewood and hornbeam. The machinery, last used in 1946, has been maintained in good running order (former list description May 1970). 3 storey over basement mill, left, and 2 storey house, right, with 1st floor rooms partly in the roof space. The mill has a symmetrical 3-bay front with a loading doorway to the middle of each floor with a window on either side. The second floor doorway has a dormered gable over to give more headroom and a cantilevered staging with railing in front. Ledged doors and 4-pane windows. Very small basement windows. The house has a nearly symmetrical 2 window front with central doorway within a C20 gable ended porch. The windows are 6-pane horned sashes. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW6441734328

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
65850
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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