Overshot Mill House
OVERSHOT MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169877
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Overshot Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- OVERSHOT MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169877
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Overshot Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVERSHOT MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
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:
- OVERSHOT MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colne Engaine
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86008 29937
Details
TL 82 NE COLNE ENGAINE MILL LANE (north side)
6/21 Overshot Mill House
GV II
House. Early C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Rectangular plan facing SE with 2 external rear stacks. C20 flat-roofed extension to right, extending to rear. C20 flat-roofed single-storey extensions in rear angle and to front of it. 2 storeys. On each floor, 2 C20 casements and one C18 2-light window with wrought iron casement. 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, in C19 trellised porch of geometrical design with flat roof. Hipped roof. Shaped sprockets below eaves. Jowled posts. In entrance hall, chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. Elsewhere, joists plastered to the soffits. The walls have been raised approx. 1.5 metres in the C18. Colne Engaine, the Story of an Essex Parish, 1975, 9, states that this house and Overshot Mill (item 6/22, q.v.) date from 1640, on the evidence of deeds; but the physical evidence, particularly of the joists, indicates an earlier origin, possibly with alterations in 1640.
Listing NGR: TL8600829937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115870
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colne Engaine The Story of an Essex Parish, (1975), 9
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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