Ponsworthy Mill, Including the Garden Wall and Gateposts Fronting the Road
PONSWORTHY MILL, INCLUDING THE GARDEN WALL AND GATEPOSTS FRONTING THE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242425
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ponsworthy Mill, Including the Garden Wall and Gateposts Fronting the Road
- Statutory Address:
- PONSWORTHY MILL, INCLUDING THE GARDEN WALL AND GATEPOSTS FRONTING THE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242425
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ponsworthy Mill, Including the Garden Wall and Gateposts Fronting the Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- PONSWORTHY MILL, INCLUDING THE GARDEN WALL AND GATEPOSTS FRONTING THE ROAD
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:
- PONSWORTHY MILL, INCLUDING THE GARDEN WALL AND GATEPOSTS FRONTING THE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widecombe in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 70082 73874
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- PONSWORTHY SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/241 Ponsworthy Mill, including the 10.3.77 garden wall and gateposts fronting the road GV II
House, formerly a mill and mill house. Probably early C19. Granite rubble, painted at the front. Slated roof. Small rendered chimneystack on left gable. L-shaped plan. House-part, at right-angles to road, has 2-room plan with central passage leading to staircase at the back; mill building at right-angles to it, at the end farthest from the road. 2 storeys. House has symmetrical 3-window front. Windows have granite lintels; low wide windows on ground storey, tall narrow ones above, all having C19 casements with glazing-bars. Old plank door with inserted window in centre. Inward face of mill building has an old plank door to right of ground storey and a C19 casement window with glazing-bars to left. Against gable-wall of mill a ruined, single-storey lean-to. At rear is an iron mill-wheel moulded with the maker's name, WILLCOCKS & SON, BUCKFASTLEIGH; wooden spokes and paddles have mostly rotted away. Fronting the road is a good garden wall of large-scale granite rubble and 2 plain granite gateposts. Interior of house and mill not inspected but 1977 provisional list said that "internally it retains much of the original machinery with wooden gearing and belt drives".
Listing NGR: SX7008273874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441815
- 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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