HOOKS MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE

HOOKS MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE, POTTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163781
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: HOOKS MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HOOKS MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE, POTTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163781
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: HOOKS MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HOOKS MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE, POTTON ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HOOKS MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE, POTTON ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Guilden Morden
National Grid Reference:: TL2707045250

Details

TL 24 NE GUILDEN MORDEN POTTON ROAD (South-west side) 1/141 Hooks Mill and engine house 18.7.86 GV II

Water mill. Late C18 with later alterations and C19 engine house. Brick with tarred brick plinth timber framed, weather boarded and painted, C19 gault brick. Plain tiled and slated roofs. Two storeys with attics and wheel house; engine house to left hand with tall tapering rectangular stack. Two halved, boarded doors with loft door below gabled sack hoist projecting above eaves. Two ground floor and two first floor casement windows. Interior; complete, iron wheel, wallower and pit-wheel, upright-shaft and iron great spur wheel with wooden teeth, four pairs of under driven stones; floor dressers, weighing machines, sack hoist and grain hoppers. Small office at first floor with ledger desk. The mill was called Hokes Melne in 1381, it was last used in c.1935.

Stevens, R: Cambridge Windmills and Watermills 1985

Listing NGR: TL2707045250

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 52546
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Stephens, R, Wind and Watermills of Cambridgeshire, (1985)

Legal

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