Stretton Mill and Steps, Millrace and Sluice Adjoining
STRETTON MILL AND STEPS, MILLRACE AND SLUICE ADJOINING, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1279423
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Stretton Mill and Steps, Millrace and Sluice Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- STRETTON MILL AND STEPS, MILLRACE AND SLUICE ADJOINING, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1279423
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Stretton Mill and Steps, Millrace and Sluice Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRETTON MILL AND STEPS, MILLRACE AND SLUICE ADJOINING, 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:
- STRETTON MILL AND STEPS, MILLRACE AND SLUICE ADJOINING, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stretton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 45450 53014
Details
SJ 45 SE STRETTON C.P. MILL LANE South Side
3/46 Stretton Mill and steps, millrace and sluice adjoining
18/7/72
GV II*
Water-powered cornmill C16 and C17, extended C18 and C19. Weatherboarded oak frame and coursed red sandstone with brown brick leanto extension and chimney of stone and brick at rear; graded grey slate roof, stone plinth and stone replacement as part of the walls of the older (right) part of the mill. C19 extension, left, of stone. 2 storeys plus attic grain store. External overshot wheel of timber on right gable wall. Divided boarded door of oak. 1 leaded casement and 1 iron-barred opening to lower storey and 3 leaded casements to upper storey at front; 1 leaded casement to upper storey and to attic in west gable; all have oak shutters on wrought iron hinges. East gable end has camber-arched barred opening to the internal wheel-pit with an oak boarded loading-door above flanked by small leaded and shuttered casements. 2 leaded, shuttered casements in C18 leanto at rear, and boarded door. The chimney of stone has a diagonal flue of brick; the stonework bears carved initials and dates: IHM 1763; JOHN HUGHES; GD; HB; ?W 17?? Bargeboards; eaves have exposed rafters. Adjoining east gable wall is a flight of stone steps up mill dam, and a stone-walled millrace with sluice. Interior contains a breastwheel in C19 extension, left, driving a complete train of mid-Victorian largely cast iron machinery, and (right) a train of restored largely C18 wooden machinery driven by the external wheel. On lower storey at rear is a forge-hearth. On upper floor (reached by steep stair left of entrance) are the underdrift millstones, ancillary equipment and hoist-hatch. In the leanto extension are carved on east side of chimney: PB; IR; IMO; 1640; EW(?); PB 1712. Grain loft (access by ladder) in older (right) part of main building contains 2 diagonal-strut oak trusses with windbraces, chamfered oak purlins and diagonally set ridge-piece. The oak frame and kingpost truss of the former left gable (now between the older part and the C19 extension of the mill) survives. The mill machinery (restored by Dr Cyril Boucher partly at the expense of the Science Museum, in 1967) is of national importance. J H Norris The Water-powered Cornmills of Cheshire, O J P Bott Cornmill Sites in Cheshire Parts 2 & 3, Cheshire History Nos.11 and 13. . . .
Listing NGR: SJ4545053014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Norris, J H, The Waterpowered Cornmills of Cheshire, (1970)
Cheshire History in Spring, (1984)
Cheshire History in Summer, Vol. 11, (1983), 52-65
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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