Water Newton Mill, Formerly the Water Mill
WATER NEWTON MILL, FORMERLY THE WATER MILL, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274434
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Water Newton Mill, Formerly the Water Mill
- Statutory Address:
- WATER NEWTON MILL, FORMERLY THE WATER MILL, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274434
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Water Newton Mill, Formerly the Water Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER NEWTON MILL, FORMERLY THE WATER MILL, MILL LANE
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:
- WATER NEWTON MILL, FORMERLY THE WATER MILL, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Water Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 11006 97384
Details
In the entry for:-
WATER NEWTON MILL LANE (south side) Water Newton Mill, formerly the 12/175 Water Mill
The third sentence of the description shall be amended to read:- "Converted to five dwellings in 1986."
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WATER NEWTON MILL LANE TL 1097 (South Side) 12/175 Water Newton Mill, formerly the Water 25.9.51 Mill GV II Water mill. '1791 J Compton' on dated plaque,withCl9 additions and alterations. Converted to dwellings and shop in 1986. Coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings, Collyweston stone slated roofs, and red pantiled roof. Three storeys and attics to main north-south range with mansard roof, gable extension of two storeys to south formerly linked at right angles to east-west range. Single storey and attic steam engine house to north with western outshut and tapering red brick stack. West elevation: seven main bays, segmental arched head with dropped keystones to all windows with cast iron glazing bars, five first floor and ground floor windows with central four panes pivot hung, second floor windows with eight panes. Two boarded first floor doors; wheel archway to left hand, double glazed doors to left of centre and brick segmental arched opening to right of centre. Internal machinery largely intact, including two wheels one with fourteen foot diameter, two pairs of stones, sash hoists and grain bins.
Cambridgeshire Wind and Watermills 1985 Pevsner: Buildings of England, p364
Listing NGR: TL1100697384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415293
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stephens, R, Wind and Watermills of Cambridgeshire, (1985), 364
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 364
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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