ORCHARD MILLHOUSE, MILL AND WATERWHEEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174791
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: ORCHARD MILLHOUSE, MILL AND WATERWHEEL
Statutory Address:: ORCHARD MILLHOUSE, MILL AND WATERWHEEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174791
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: ORCHARD MILLHOUSE, MILL AND WATERWHEEL
Statutory Address 1:: ORCHARD MILLHOUSE, MILL AND WATERWHEEL

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:: ORCHARD MILLHOUSE, MILL AND WATERWHEEL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Williton
National Grid Reference:: ST 07287 40589

Details

ST0740 WILLITON CP ORCHARD WYNDHAM

10/240 Orchard Millhouse, Mill and Waterwheel (Previously listed as Orchard Mill (House and Buildings))

22.5.69

- II

Millers house, corn mill, waterwheel and attached range of outbuildings, now dwelling and museum. C18. Millers house and mill: red sandstone random rubble, rendered on millhouse with pilaster strips, hipped asbestos slate roof, overhanging eaves, brick stacks rising from eaves right and centre at junction with mill. Plan: mill and millhouse under one roof, water wheel on South side, long range of outbuildings attached South East. 3 storeys, 2:3 bays; facade divided equally, rendered dwelling right, 16 pane sash windows, central panelled door, lean-to single storey addition right, plank door and 16 pane sash window; mill, openings only on lower 2 storeys, segmental headed, loft door above entrance. Independently roofed hipped wing, random rubble, nearest mill 2 storeys, 3 bays, early C19 leaded iron casements and central double doors, single storey at East end. Overshot water wheel on South front of mill, restored mid C20 with wooden paddles, iron frame. Interior: corn milling machinery with additional imported machinery and other items forming a museum collection. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST0728740589

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Legacy System number:: 265006
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.