Town Mills, Mill House
TOWN MILLS, MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230633
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Town Mills, Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN MILLS, MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230633
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Town Mills, Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN MILLS, MILL HOUSE, 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:
- TOWN MILLS, MILL HOUSE, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyme Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 34167 92188
Details
In the entry for:-
MILL LANE 1. 1357 (South Side) Town Mills Mill House SY 3492 1/230 II
shall be replaced by:-
LYME REGIS SY3492 MILL LANE 864-0/1/230 (South side) 24/03/81 Town Mills, Mill House
II Water mill. Incorporating remains from circa 1500, largely rebuilt 1647 and C18 and C19. Stone rubble, partly rendered. Slate roofs with gabled ends. Two separate ranges with connecting wing to south west; the Mill House comprises the north-easternmost part of the northerly range. Rendered 3-storey and attic 2 window bay front; 4-pane sash windows; doorway to right of centre with recessed glazed door; small loft door in gable; lean-to outshut on right. North-west facing front of southern range oftwo storeys in two sections, north section lower; stone rubble with slate roof; north section has loft door in gable and door below. Interior: Roofpurlin dated 1797. Some late C18 wooden and late C19 cast-iron water mill machinery remains including:- Late C18 [circa 1790's] large vertical timber shaft carries late C18 timber crown-wheel and circa 1880's cast-iron spur-wheel and wallower; hurst-frame much altered but contains some 1790's fabric; remains of three pairs of mill stones; later sack-hoist worked from the late C18 shaft. Green glazed Medieval ridge tiles have been found in the building. Recent archaeological work indicates that there are five phases of water wheels and four phases of floor levels. From 1500 to 1740 the mill was owned by the Lyme Regis Town Council and accounts for the mill are extant. SOURCES: [1] Graham, A.H., Archaeological Report, to be published in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. [2] Watts, M., Town Mill, Lyme Regis, design and construction proposals for the millwork; November 1994.
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MILL LANE 1. 1357 (South Side) Town Mills Mill House ST 3492 1/230 II 2. C18 to C19. 2 separate ranges with connecting wing in south-west. Stone rubble, partly stuccoed. Slate roofs, Mill House comprises the north-eaeternmost part of the northerly range. 3 storeys and attic 2 window bays. Rendered front. Small loft door in attic storey. Sash windows without glazing bars. Centre doorway. North-west facing front of southern range of 2 storeys in 2 sections, north section lower. Stone rubble with slate roof; north section has loft door surmounted by gable in centre with another door, below. Interior contains wood and cast iron water mill machinery. Roof purlin dated 1797.
Listing NGR: SY3416792188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405616
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watts, M, Town Mill Lyme Regis Design and Construction Proposals for the Millwork, (1994)
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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