Mill at Gun's Mills
MILL AT GUN'S MILLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186479
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Mill at Gun's Mills
- Statutory Address:
- MILL AT GUN'S MILLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186479
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mill at Gun's Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL AT GUN'S MILLS
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:
- MILL AT GUN'S MILLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Littledean
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 67511 15958
Details
SO 61 NE LITTLEDEAN Mill at Gun's Mills 6/67 (formerly Listed as Barn at Gunn's Mills, East Dean Parish) 23.9.55 GV II*
Formerly blast-furnace, later paper mill, now unused. 1682/3 (on iron lintels), mid C18. Coursed, squared rubble to furnace and blowing chamber, ashlar dressings and corrugated-iron roof to latter; upper building part rubble stone, part timber-framed, with slate roof. 'L' plan, pivoted on furnace, wings at different levels. Square blast-furnace at lower level, with tapering recess in main face, roof sloping back to main wall line, with 2 iron lintels. Doors at ground floor and in sloping face above. This recess repeated on left return, in blowing chamber, with dated lintels. Inside square chamber with sloping walls above 2m. Narrow top now covered by stone slab in floor of room above. Blowing chamber on left with opening against furnace, then 2 windows, unclosed: upper part of wall rebuilt in concrete block, (originally 2 floors). Behind pit, 7.5m long for overshot water- wheel: small arched recess in back wall. Space in front of furnace and blowing chamber was casting floor. Upper level at right-angles; timber-framed over furnace, 3-bays, built as paper mill. Wattle and daub infill to gable wall, open or glazed sides in 2 panels per bay: partition to stone section beyond, 3 bays, with floor over at eaves level. Trusses queen strut. Stone section 2 large openings in gable, one in side leading to 4-bay wing. Furnace originally built 1628, probably destroyed 1650; rebuilt 1682/3. Converted to papermill by 1743, and so used to at least 1900: furnace became stairs. Mill pond lay beyond house now filled in. Considered to be 'best remaining furnace of the earliest phase of British blast-furnace practice'. (C. Hart, The Industrial History of Dean, 1971, p. 43, 70, 379).
Listing NGR: SO6751115958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354139
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hart, C, The Industrial History of Dean, (1971), 43 70 379
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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