Mill House Swanton Mill

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TR 03 NW MERSHAM SOUTH STOUR

Swanton Mill 6/155 and Mill House 27.11.57

GV II*

Mill and mill-house. C15 to mid C19. Timber framed and clad with red brick, and extended with timber framing clad with weatherboarding. Plain tiled roof with slated gables. C15 3 bay hall house, the 2 storey service end utilised as mill, with wheel attached to gable end, the wheel housed in C17 by timber extension. C16 3 bay lobby entry house attached to west of original house (and incorporating the parlour end), fronted by C18 range to north. Mid C19 extensions to mill buildings to south and to east. Mill house: entrance front (to north), C18 weatherboarded. Two storeys with hipped roof and stacks to end left and rear centre right. Three wooden casements on 1st floor and 2 on ground floor with moulded cornices. Central door of 4 panels with glazed upper section and flat cornice-hood. Right return of red brick with dogtooth cornice and single storey extension. Left hand wing recessed slightly, with hip-end of C15 range, clad with red brick with dogtooth eaves cornice. Rear range of house clad with red and blue brick, in part in Garden wall bond on ragstone plinth, with 2 wooden casements to each floor. Mill, the northern end with stepped up ridge line. C17 range of 1 storey and attic with half-hipped roof with gabled roof-light. Three wooden casements and half-glazed half-door, with horizontally sliding sash and wooden casement to right in single storey extensions. Two storey mid C19 block to rear with gabled hoist housing to southern elevation, and wooden casements, standing on brick piers over the mill race. Interior: the northern end of the mill, although now open to the C17 range or taken into the C16 house, was originally a hall house with crown post roof (smoke blackened), the C17 range to south incorporating the wheel. The present wheel is by Holmans of Canterbury, unusually sized overshot wheel (7½ feet diameter, 8 feet wide overshot wheel with 42 buckets), now feeding 2 wheels, originally capable of driving 4. Single storey extension to south of mill added 1841 for a beam engine (now removed). Early C19 grain store over race. The sluices of wood, iron and stone to east of mill control the flow is a red brick and ragstone lined mill-race. The stream is culverted from the mill below the garden to south of house. (Traditional Kent Buildings, No. 1; Mill Guide and pers. comm.).

Listing NGR: TR0496839097

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