Mill at Methleigh
MILL AT METHLEIGH, BREAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196357
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Mill at Methleigh
- Statutory Address:
- MILL AT METHLEIGH, BREAGE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196357
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Mill at Methleigh
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL AT METHLEIGH, BREAGE ROAD
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 METHLEIGH, BREAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Porthleven
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 62376 26418
Details
HELSTON
SW62NW BREAGE ROAD 631-1/1/4 Mill at Methleigh 25/07/79 (Formerly Listed as: BREAGE ROAD Farmyard buildings including watermill at Methleigh)
GV II
Watermill. Probably early C19 foundations, mostly rebuilt mid C19. Killas and granite dressings; scantle slate roof. Small rectangular plan with deep wheel slot on each side and further slot at rear end; surviving 22 foot diameter overshot wheel on the left (with timber arms missing except for fragments set in the nave). 3 storeys with 2nd floor partly in roof space; symmetrical 2-window front gable end. 6-pane windows; central doorway to each floor; ledged doors the upper doorway with corbelled sack hoist over. Doorway to 1st floor of each return wall, approached by bridges. INTERIOR: mid C19 floors, roof structure and later C19 complete mill machinery with 2 drive gears, one complete with wooden cogs, and 2 sets of stones to 1st (stone) floor set in octagonal wooden cases; hoisting pulley in attic and the sawn-off remains of 2 heavy timbers from the earlier machinery. The water supply system at Methleigh serving mill, farm buildings, house and gardens, is a considerable feat of planning and engineering and is probably the most complex of its kind in Cornwall.
Listing NGR: SW6237626418
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385358
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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