Pointwell Mill House
POINTWELL MILL HOUSE, POINTWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170230
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pointwell Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- POINTWELL MILL HOUSE, POINTWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170230
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pointwell Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POINTWELL MILL HOUSE, POINTWELL 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:
- POINTWELL MILL HOUSE, POINTWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coggeshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85299 21524
Details
TL 82 SE COGGESHALL POINTWELL LANE, COGGESHALL HAMLET (north side)
6/165 No. 15 (Pointwell Mill House)
GV II
House. Circa 1600, extended c.1700 and in C18/early C19. Timber framed, weatherboarded and plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays aligned N-S (gable end to road) with external stack to left of middle bay and C19/20 external stack to left of rear bay. 2-bay extension to N, c.1700, with external stack beyond, enclosed by C19/20 single-storey extension roofed with red clay pantiles. Small entrance-hall extension to SW, in angle between front bay of main range and external stack, projecting slightly forwards. 2 storeys. 2-window range of C19 casements. 6-panel door in trellised gabled porch. C19 fretted bargeboards on both gables of S (entrance) elevation. The long E elevation of the main range has 2 C19 casements on the ground floor and 3 on the first floor, and of the extension 2 C19 horizontal sashes of 12 lights on the first floor. One similar sash on the ground floor of the W elevation of the main range. This elevation and the main stack are plastered, the remainder weatherboarded. Jowled posts. Primary straight bracing with heavy studding. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, joists (where exposed, in rear bay) plain and of horizontal section, on secondary nailed heavy clamps. Left wallplate of rear bay rebated for shutters, probably for an unglazed window. The middle sections of both wallplates are replaced, one re-using the head or transom of an unglazed window. Clasped purlin roof with pegged apices, re-using some smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval hall. Large ground-floor hearth blocked and reduced for early C19 hearth with reeded surround with paterae. Inserted first-floor hearth blocked, mantel beam exposed. In the rear bays the joists are plain and of vertical section, jointed to the chamfered axial beam with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, and the posts are unjowled. Shown in a map of 1732, adjacent to 'Poyntle Mill' (Essex Record Office, D/DU 19/3). The associated water-mill (not listed) ceased working c.1902, became derelict, and was converted into a dwelling in 1960 (H. Benham, Some Essex Water Mills, 1976, 65).
Listing NGR: TL8529921524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116193
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Benham, H, Some Essex Water Mills, (1976)
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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