Shawford Mill
SHAWFORD MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175658
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shawford Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SHAWFORD MILL
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175658
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shawford Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAWFORD MILL
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:
- SHAWFORD MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rode
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79338 53361
Details
ST75SE RODE CP SHAWFORD
4/421 Shawford Mill
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GV II
Former cloth finishing mill, now theatre. Early C19. Random rubble, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof, hipped to left, coped verge to right. Rectangular on plan, regular frontage. 2 storeys, 9 bays, segmental-headed 2-light stone mullion windows, each light with a casement with glazing bars. 2 door openings to ground floor in chamfered segmental headed stone surrounds with emphasised key-stones, plank doors. Further C20 door opening to first floor of left return reached by a flight of C20 concrete steps. Mill leat flows under the mill in 2 places emerging to North side under a causeway, one narrow and one broad segmental archway. Section of rubble wall to right return, 2 semi-circular headed archways, dressed stone voussoirs. Two reused late C19 mill wheels inside the mill. An extremely well preserved example of a local mill. Probably a dye works. (O Bryan Morland, An Introduction To The Infrastructure Of The Industrial Revolution In Somerset, 1982).
Listing NGR: ST7933853361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267368
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morland, O, An Introduction to the Infrastructure of the Industrial Revolution in Somerset, (1982)
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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