Old Mill
OLD MILL, BLAKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197355
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Old Mill
- Statutory Address:
- OLD MILL, BLAKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197355
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Old Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD MILL, BLAKE STREET
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:
- OLD MILL, BLAKE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30011 36882
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST3036 BLAKE STREET 736-1/9/13 (East side) 24/03/50 Old Mill
GV II
Mill, now storage space and future gallery for the Blake Museum to the left (qv). Medieval site, rebuilt early/mid C19. Painted limestone rubble base with painted English-bond brick above, pantile roof, half-hipped to the front gable end. Rectangular plan with extensions to the left. 2 storeys; one-window range. The front, facing north-west up Blake Street, has a C20 two-light casement window at eaves level under the half hip; at its cill level, to the left, is a timber lintel to a small 4-pane window; below it on the the ground floor is a timber lintel to a C20 vertical 6-pane window and to the right are C20 double planked doors under a C20 timber lintel. The right return has a gauged brick segmental arch to a C19 two-light window high on the ground floor. A catslide roof and other extensions to the left are concealed behind a cottage which is part of the Blake Museum. INTERIOR: the upper floor of the main block to the right has C19 cross-bracing to a horizonally planked roof and a 4-light window to the rear, half of the floor extends to the left in the upper part of the outshut. The ground floor has a pit with some cogged machinery which housed the former undershot mill wheel. The Durleigh Brook runs beneath the mill in a vaulted rubblestone culvert. History: recorded in the C14 and known as the Town Mill by the C17. It was owned in 1709 by Richard Lowbridge who gained permission from the Mayor and Corporation "to break up the soil of the streets, lanes, etc in the town in order to convey water from his mill stream, the Durleigh Brook, to the High Cross in Cornhill and thence to any streets in the town for the use of the inhabitants." The pipes were made of halved elm logs, hollowed out and rejoined, some were recovered in 1795 when the old stone bridge was removed, some in the late C19 when gas pipes were laid and some in the late C20 when new waterpipes were laid in the High Street. (Squibbs PJ: Squibbs' History of Bridgwater: Chichester: 1982-: 57; VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 215).
Listing NGR: ST3001136882
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1992), 215
Squibbs, P J, Squibbs History of Bridgwater, (1982), 57
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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