LOWERTOWN MILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161415
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1980
List Entry Name:: LOWERTOWN MILL
Statutory Address:: LOWERTOWN MILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161415
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1980
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: LOWERTOWN MILL
Statutory Address 1:: LOWERTOWN MILL

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:: LOWERTOWN MILL

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sithney
National Grid Reference:: SW6591229273

Details

SW 62 NE SITHNEY LOWERTON

8/305 Lowertown Mill (formerly listed as Jenkins Mill and Mill House) 17.1.80 GV II

Mill with former millhouse adjoining. C17, remodelled in the C18 and again in the C19. Waterwheel by Harvey of Helston. Painted rubble with dressed granite quoins, some jambstones and lintels. Steep grouted scantle slate roofs, with gable ends, left, otherwise hipped. Plan : L-shaped plan, the earlier range is the long arm of the L and of 2 storeys including the former miller's house; the right hand part remodelled and heightened to give taller first floor with working attic above and returned at right angles to the front right hand side. A large overshot wheel survives beside the right hand wall. The earliest evidence is a chamfered granite jamb and lintel to a former wide doorway (now window) at the far right of the main range, together with a through passage position within the former miller's house indicate its C17 origins. The miller's house, left, has an unheated room left of the former passage and a larger heated room right. The L-shaped mill adjoins to the right and is undivided on each floor. Most of the C19 machinery and fittings survive. On the ground floor is the timber framework for drive machinery for 2 pairs of millstones (used alternately for different grades of fineness), these were set into the floor above, also on the first floor are sack hoisting machinery and hoppers filled from the attic. The roof is steep, giving working space to the attic, and within the wing at the front is a large grain hutch set into the attic floor. There is also some later machinery which was operated by electricity. The floors and roof structure are C19. Still in working order is the sack hoisting pulleys and belt with hand operated clutch allowing a sack to be hoisted to the attic through an automatically opening and closing hatch. 2 storeys. 3 window south-east front, the right hand part taller and returned with hipped end at the front, right. The former miller's house, left, has a doorway left of middle and a small window at either side. The first floor walling is a C19 rebuild and there is 1 first floor window opening. The mill has a doorway, left, and a window over. Just to the right of this the wall is taller and returning left a weather boarded gable end rises above the house roof (in the gable of this is a 2- light casement to light the attic); a former doorway, right, near the angle with the wing and another window over and the wing, far right, has a window opening to each floor at the front. The right hand side wall is blind and only pierced for the waterwheel drive shaft. The overshot waterwheel is about 20 feet in diameter and hasoak spokes, wooden buckets and cast-iron wheel segments bolted together. Interior : largely intact since the C19 (see plan). Lowertown Mill or Tregonnack Mill is a particularly complete and unaltered example of a mill with adjoining miller's house. Across the road is Anvower Mill qv.

Listing NGR: SW6591229273

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Legacy System number:: 65986
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.