6-9, HIGHER MILL LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217983
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:: 6-9, HIGHER MILL LANE
Statutory Address:: 6-9, HIGHER MILL LANE

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217983
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:: 6-9, HIGHER MILL LANE
Statutory Address 1:: 6-9, HIGHER MILL LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 6-9, HIGHER MILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Buckfastleigh
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX7390467389

Details

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX76NW HIGHER MILL LANE, Buckfast 1011-1/1/38 (East side) 06/01/83 Nos.6-9 (Consecutive)

GV II

Row of cottages with probable tenter loft (oral history) over for industrial use at former woollen mill. Cottages and loft disused at time of survey (1992). c1800. Local grey limestone rubble, upper storeys slate-hung with section of weatherboarding at right end of loft; asbestos slate roof, gabled at ends. Plan: large rectangular building, fronting the road. Adjoining to the right is a probably slightly earlier woollen mill (qv), at one time part of the same industrial complex. The 2-storey cottages are 2 rooms on plan, the front rooms heated. Open tenter loft above with access from the woollen mill. The right hand cottage appears to have been used as an office for the woollen mill at one time, with access from inside the covered cartway at the left end of the mill. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and loft. Asymmetrical 5-window front. Right-hand cottage/office has a recessed half-glazed front door to the left and one 2 and one 3-light ground-floor casement, 4 panes per light. 3 first-floor late C19 or C20 sash windows, two 6-pane and one 4-pane. Weatherboarded section to loft includes an 18-pane fixed window. The 3 cottages have plank doors with overlights, door of right hand cottage to the right, the left hand cottages with adjacent doors, flanked by 2 and 3-light casements, 3 panes per light. 2 first floor c1800 16-pane sash windows. Loft blind on first floor. Left return has weatherboarded gable and one 6-light loft window to the right with lapped glass, left hand window blocked. Both windows have vertical bands of brick blocking below the sills. Rear elevation has variety of windows: some 4-pane lapped glass windows and some 4-pane horned sashes. Ground floor has some 8 over 12-pane ground floor sashes. INTERIOR: Left-hand cottage has simple detail consistent with a c1800 date. Slightly chamfered cross beam on ground floor, plastered-over crossbeam on ground and first floors; probably original stair to rear, 2 panelled first-floor doors, one 6-panel the upper panels fielded, cast-iron C19 grate. Right hand cottage has one c1900 grate. Loft preserves graffiti. Roof: 8 tiebeam trusses, mortised at the apex with high halved collars and queen posts, mortised into the principals and strapped on to them with iron shoes. Historical note: Elizabeth Knowling has researched the documentation for Higher Mill. There was a mill on the site by at least 1730, documented as a tucking mill in 1760. In 1800 "Mills" were described as "lately erected on the site previously occupied by the tucking mill". By 1953 the mills were re-used as a plating works. Samuel Berry, the owner in the late C18-early C19, built himself a house at Buckfast Abbey (qv) from re-used building material. Physical remains of the wool industry, crucial to the economy of Devon in the C16, C17 and C18, are rare in the county. This arrangement with cottages below a tenter loft is unusual, with a parallel in Chapel Street, Buckfastleigh (qv). An important surviving example. (Knowling E: Private archive: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SX7390467389

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 392292
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.