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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- 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
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:
- 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.
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