Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage

Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage, Coddenham Road, Needham Market, Suffolk, IP6 8NU

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1231764
Date first listed:
19-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage
Statutory Address:
Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage, Coddenham Road, Needham Market, Suffolk, IP6 8NU
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1231764
Date first listed:
19-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage, Coddenham Road, Needham Market, Suffolk, IP6 8NU

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

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:
Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage, Coddenham Road, Needham Market, Suffolk, IP6 8NU

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Needham Market
National Grid Reference:
TM 09580 54657

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 November 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

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NEEDHAM MARKET
CODDENHAM ROAD
Bosmere Mill and Flint Cottage

(Formerly listed as Bosmere Mill)

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II

Former watermill, once a restaurant. Late C18 or early C19. Four storeys and attics. Timber-framed and weatherboarded. Concrete tiled roof, half-hipped at the north end. A gabled lucum (hoist loft) projects from the east roof slope. Three-window range of C20 pivoting small-pane casements, replacing original sashes. A pair of C20 multiple-panelled entrance doors. A two-storey brick and flint extension of C19/20 on the west side. A large iron breast-shot waterwheel, formerly in a wheelhouse but now external. All milling machinery has been removed.

Formerly known as Barking Road Mill or Quinton's Mill (the former Bosmere Mill stood about 800m down the River Gipping at Riverside Farm, Creeting St. Mary until C20).

Listing NGR: TM0958054657

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
406989
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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