Yafford Mill
YAFFORD MILL, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220319
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Yafford Mill
- Statutory Address:
- YAFFORD MILL, MILL LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220319
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Yafford Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- YAFFORD MILL, MILL LANE
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:
- YAFFORD MILL, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shorwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 44680 82123
Details
SHORWELL
SZ48SW MILL LANE 1354-0/8/334 Yafford Mill 04/08/76 (Formerly Listed as: Yafford Mill and Mill House)
II
Former mill and mill house, now house and museum. C18 Mill house to left, mill to right. Mill house is of red brick with one course of headers to 2 of stretchers. Tiled roof with brick chimneystack. 2 storeys 2 windows. Casements and C19 lean-to porch. Mill building is of ironstone rubble with brick dressings but gable end is of brick with some Flemish and some English bond. 1st floor has blocked opening, ground floor has 1 casement. Simple doorcase concealed by stone brick and thatched lean-to. Overshot wheel to right is a C20 replacement. Attached to the right hand side is a probably C17 section of stone wall, the remains of an earlier mill. Left hand side has C19 projecting section of brick and ironstone rubble with slate roof. 2 doors. Catslide roof to rear. Roof, which open above both house and mill has chamfered staggered purlins with some diagonal tension braces and collar beams. Interior of mill has iron pit wheel, renewed wooden great spur wheel, wallower, wooden upright shaft and C19 wheat and barley shutes.
Listing NGR: SZ4468082123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393217
- 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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