Shirburn Mill
SHIRBURN MILL, MILL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254184
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Shirburn Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SHIRBURN MILL, MILL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254184
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Shirburn Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIRBURN MILL, MILL 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:
- SHIRBURN MILL, MILL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lawford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0779131750
Details
LAWFORD MILL HILL
TM 03 SE
2/115 Shirburn Mill,
(sometimes called
Sherbourne Mill and
17.11.66 attached dam wall to
south)
GV II
Former water mill, now empty. C18/C19. Timber framed and weatherboarded, red
brick ground floor. Red plain tile roof. 3 storeys and loft with lucam to
north face, outshot lean-to to south. North face. Central lucam on curved
brackets, window to north. 3 window range of small paned vertically sliding
sashes, moulded surrounds, those to ground floor with segmental heads, central
door to first floor, central panelled door to ground floor within segmental
head, small vertically boarded door to right. The south lean-to faces the mill
pond and the exterior overshot wheel, removed 1930's, was to the east face. Of 5
bays with hanging knees to tie beams. 2 pairs of stones remain in the mill, one
by H & C Collins, Milton and the other by Tinsby, Ipswich and 2 stone nuts. The
dam wall curves to enclose the mill pond to the south and is of concrete faced
brick. The mill stream passed under a bridge to the west of the Mill (not now
visible) to drive the waterwheel. Once a partner to a long demolished upper
mill formerly situated across the mill pond. J. Booker. Batsford Guide to
Industrial Archaeology 1980.,
Listing NGR: TM0779131750
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437604
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Booker, J, Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology, (1979)
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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