Mill House
MILL HOUSE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240668
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- MILL HOUSE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240668
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL HOUSE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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:
- MILL HOUSE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Speldhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53060 37579
Details
TQ 53 3 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (east side), OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/499 Mill House
GV II*
Former miller's house. Probably late C17 with some minor later alterations. Timber-framed. Ground floor is underbuilt with English bond red brick with a large number of burnt headers giving a banded effect in places. Frame above hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: 2-room lobby entrance plan house facing north north west, say north. Central axial stack serving slightly larger left (east) room. Stair rises to rear of stack in probably secondary 2-storey outshots. The Mill (q.v.) adjoins to left and until the C20 the mill race ran by the back of the house.
2 storeys with attics in roofspace of main block.
Exterior: Nearly symmetrical 3-window front of old casements containing diamond panes of leaded glass (particularly small panes in the hip-roofed dormers). Central front doorway contains a plain plank door under a shallow flat-roofed hood. Roof is half-hipped both ends. Rear elevation more recent but 3-window elevation in same style with half dormers.
Interior: Only limited internal inspection was available at the time of this survey. Main ground floor room has a large brick fireplace with an oak lintel. This lintel and the crossbeam are chamfered with scroll stops.
Mill House is one of the very important group of listed buildings in Old Groombridge.
Listing NGR: TQ5306037579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439025
- 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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