Cossington Mill

COSSINGTON MILL, SYSTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1228042
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Cossington Mill
Statutory Address:
COSSINGTON MILL, SYSTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1228042
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Cossington Mill
Statutory Address 1:
COSSINGTON MILL, SYSTON ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COSSINGTON MILL, SYSTON ROAD

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Cossington
National Grid Reference:
SK 59563 12947

Details

COSSINGTON

SK 51 SE SYSTON ROAD (South Side)

6/17 Cossington Mill

GV II

Restaurant, formerly mill. C17, restored, and with later modifications. White- washed brick and timber framing in large panels with brick nogging and Swithland slate hipped roof with 2 brick and C20 metal projecting stacks. 2 storeys of leaded light casements.L plan, wing projecting on right with brick coped gable. Ground floor of brick, timber framing begins at 1st floor level and whole floor is 1 panel high. Facing is the main range of 1 bay wide with jettied 1st floor projection containing a 2-light casement. Door under archway below and 2-light to side. Wing to right projects a bay and here a 2-light and 1-light with 3-light below. On the facing gable a 1 storey extension with Swithland slate roof formerly housing the mill wheel. Attic 2-light. On left end is 1 bay of 4 panels wide with 2 1 storey extensions below. Rear, facing river, of 5 panels wide has 2 2-light windows, one with transom, over 2 3-lights and a 2-light. Central buttress. 2 2-lights in the 1 storey extensions to right. On other side, facing road, of 6 panels, a 1 storey lean-to with Welsh slate roof, with a 3-light and a 2-light and door glazed door in end to river. Above are a 3-light, 2 2-lights, one above another, and a 2-light. Inside are chamfered beams and the exposed roofs, that over the main area of 3 bays, single purlin, with tie beam trusses. Some timbers C19. Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK5956312947

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Legacy System number:
402541
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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