Watermill
WATERMILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225779
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Watermill
- Statutory Address:
- WATERMILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225779
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Watermill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERMILL
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:
- WATERMILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sapiston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 91924 74363
Details
TL 97 SW SAPISTON
3/90 Watermill -
GV II
Disused watermill. C18. Red brick ground storey, timber-framed and weatherboarded above, slate roof. Ventilating louvres in east gable, formerly a lucam on the west gable. 3 floors. Main milling machinery, and much auxilliary machinery, complete and in good condition. On the ground floor: an internal undershop waterwheel, 16ft. in diameter, in cast iron, mounted on an iron shaft. Control mechanisms for the 2 sluices are intact. Wooden clasp-arm spurwheel meshing with 3 cast-iron stone nuts driving the millstones. On the stone floor: 3 pairs of underdriven French burr stones, complete with their furniture. Above the stones on the upright shaft a wooden clasp-arm crown- wheel meshes with 3 iron gears, driving layshafts to power auxillary machinery. Several carved inscriptions on the upright shaft, the earliest noted 1832. A Boby grain cleaner, fed from bins above, and an elevator to return the cleaned grain to the upper floor. On the bin floor: a 25ft long flour dresser, fed by an Armfield shaker via an elevator. The sack hoist, bins and other partitions survive in good order.
Listing NGR: TL9192474363
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422300
- 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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