Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176076
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
- Statutory Address:
- Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176076
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
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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:
- Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shifnal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7301805887
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/12/2018
SJ 70 NW
5/14
SHIFNAL C.P
Former mill and flanking ancillary buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 73018 05887)
(Formerly listed as Former Mill and Flanking Ancillary Buildings at Hem Farm (SJ 7303 0588))
II
Watermill and flanking ancillary buildings, now agricultural store. Circa 1829. Red brick with dropped hipped roofs. Central three-storey block with set back flanking one- and two-storey wings.
South front; centre block: two first-floor two-light casements, first floor segmental-headed boarded window to right and segmental-headed boarded door to left, and two ground floor segmental-headed boarded windows to right with segmental-headed boarded door to left.
Wings: two storey wings with bricks omitted for ventilation; that to left with boarded left door and C20 ground-floor door; that to right with first floor louvred window and ground floor two segmental headed two leaf boarded door. Lower one storey wings with segmental-headed casements and two leaf boarded doors.
North front: centre block with two second floor two-light casements, two first floor two-light segmental-headed casements, and ground floor segmental-headed boarded door to left. Cast-iron high breast-type waterwheel attached to south, approximately 4' wide and 16' in diameter, with eight spokes; gabled canopy over with brick piers, king-post truss, and tile roof.
INTERIOR: centre block with queen-post trusses and two storey wings with king-post trusses. Complete set of mill fittings surviving including second floor grain bins, millstones, and some shafting.
Mill pond to south west.
The mill is part of a planned farm complex and was used for purely agricultural purposes, to meet the needs of the farm. Immediately before ceasing work it was used for grinding feed 'nuts' and chaff cutting.
Listing NGR: SJ7301805887
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, D H, The Wandering Worfe, (1980)
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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