Quemerford Mill

QUEMERFORD MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247355
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:
Quemerford Mill
Statutory Address:
QUEMERFORD MILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1247355
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
22-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:
Quemerford Mill
Statutory Address 1:
QUEMERFORD MILL

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
QUEMERFORD MILL

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Calne
National Grid Reference:
SU 00621 69730

Details

CALNE

SU0069 QUEMERFORD 755-1/7/137 (South side) 08/07/76 Quemerford Mill (Formerly Listed as: QUEMERFORD (South side) Quemerford Mill (Sainsburys))

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Cloth mill, now workshops. c1790, extended c1815, altered. Coursed, squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; brick chimney stack and slate roof. Rectangular plan, with rear and side extensions. 5 storeys; 9-window range. Cornice and blocking course, coped gable with capped gable stack; segmental-arched 2-light flat-faced stone-mullioned windows, with 15-pane bottom-hinged casements. E gable has two 2-centre-arched blocked top-storey windows. Square brick steam engine chimney with small cornice at the W end. INTERIOR: details include numbered ground-floor cast-iron columns in 9 bays, a roof with butt purlins and thin ridge piece. Former engine house at the SW end, late C19 SE and SW extensions. HISTORICAL NOTE: the C18 fulling mill was rebuilt in 1790s as a water-powered cloth mill, had a 14HP steam engine added in 1815, and was converted to a corn mill in 1841. The wide undershot wheel was in the wheel pit to the NE corner, beside a blocked window. See also No.22 Mill House, Quemerford (qv), and Teazle House, Quemerford (qv). (Corfield M C: Industrial Archaeology Guide to Wiltshire: 1978-: 78; Rogers K: Wilshire and Somerset Woollen Mills: Eddington: 1976-: 84; Wiltshire Buildings Record: Trowbridge: B63).

Listing NGR: SU0062169730

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Legacy System number:
456780
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Sources

Books and journals
Corfield, M C, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Wiltshire, (1978), 78
Rogers, K H, Somerset and Wiltshire Woollen Mills, (1976), 84

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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