Kilve Mill and Water Wheel
KILVE MILL AND WATER WHEEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295463
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Kilve Mill and Water Wheel
- Statutory Address:
- KILVE MILL AND WATER WHEEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295463
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Kilve Mill and Water Wheel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KILVE MILL AND WATER WHEEL
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:
- KILVE MILL AND WATER WHEEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilve
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15010 43019
Details
ST14SE KILVE CP
6/126 Kilve Mill and Water Wheel
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- II
Corn mill and waterwheel, undergoing conversion to dwelling at time of survey, (August 1983). Early C18, probably extended late C18. Blue lias random rubble rendered with brick corner upperfloor right, slate roof. Plan: left half mill with machinery, subsequently extended right for storage space or perhaps as miller's dwelling. 3-storeys, 3 bays; upper floor 2 leaded C18 casement windows left, unglazed opening right all openings under wooden lintels, groundfloor right wooden plank covered opening right, C19 glazed opening left of plank door and 2 thin rectangular unglazed openings. (Above evidence of two blocked windows lighting a second storey), Entrance to left hand part up flight of 6 steps, stable door under slate pentice hood carried a wooden brackets. Left return, over shot iron waterwheel without paddles probably late C19. Butt joint dividing facade into one bay left, 2 bays right indicates enlargement of original building, Interior: the main interest of this building is the extensive survival of flour milling machinery in left part, right part gutted prior to renovation. Collar and principal roof. This was known as Nether Mill to distinguish it from the vanished fulling dill that stood a few metres upstream, and was last used as a flour mill around 1906. (VCR Somerset, vol 5 forthcoming).
Listing NGR: ST1501043019
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265165
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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