Mill Building at Sowton Mill
MILL BUILDING AT SOWTON MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214794
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Building at Sowton Mill
- Statutory Address:
- MILL BUILDING AT SOWTON MILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04603/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214794
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Building at Sowton Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL BUILDING AT SOWTON 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:
- MILL BUILDING AT SOWTON MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 82511 88324
Details
DUNSFORD SX 88 NW
6/26 Mill Building at Sowton Mill 11.ll.52 (formerly listed as Sowton Mill)
GV II
Mill Building. Probably C17 origins, C20 alterations. Granite and freestone rubble, squared granite brought to course behind the water wheel, asbestos slate roof gabled at ends, right gable end, projecting granite stack with set-offs at the right end. The mill building, which has accommodation at the right end, has been altered internally in the late C20 and the water wheel is no longer in use, although the leat is still in use and powers a water turbine for electricity for domestic use. 3 storeys. The west elevation facing the leat is asymmetrical with granite quoins with a scatter of C20 windows to the right and a C20 flat-roofed dormer to the left. The entrance is on the left gable end with a doorway with chamfered jambs and a timber lintel. The iron wheel, in a poor state of repair is at the left end. In front of the wheel the leat is directed through 3 separate channels divided by dressed granite walls. Downstream from the existing wheel a second opening in the wall of the mill building indicates the former position of another wheel. Interior The gable end fireplace has a brick lintel. In spite of the late C20 fenestration the masonry of the mill building indicates an early date and the building forms a group with the mill house to the north west. A granite stone, part of the leat arrangement, has a datestone that may read 165- (last figure illegible). Sowton Mill was formerly known as 'Chaffe's Mill'. An indenture of 16 Oct 1388 granted Nicholas Sparke of Dunsford the right to make a weir "for the conveyinge of a watercourse to a mille to be builded by the said Nicholas". The grant was given by Richard Champernowne of Modbury. Records of the Committee of the Devonshire Association, 9th Report, Halliwell - Phillips Collection,(MS notes in possession of the owner).
Listing NGR: SX8251188324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399658
- 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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