Mill House and attached mill
Mill House, Tarrant Rushton, Blandford Forum, DT11 8SD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303973
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mill House and attached mill
- Statutory Address:
- Mill House, Tarrant Rushton, Blandford Forum, DT11 8SD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303973
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mill House and attached mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- Mill House, Tarrant Rushton, Blandford Forum, DT11 8SD
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:
- Mill House, Tarrant Rushton, Blandford Forum, DT11 8SD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarrant Rushton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST9370205988
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/05/2019
ST 90 NW
3/55
TARRANT RUSHTON
Mill House and attached mill
(Formerly listed as Tarrant Rushton House and attached mill)
GV
II
House and attached mill, mid C19. House of banded brick and flint with brick dressings, later C19 brick extension right. Mill in English-bond brickwork with tiled roof. House has slate roof with brick stacks having cogged caps to ends of original range. Two storeys, original was of two window range. House has three-light casements with glazing bars under segmental brick heads. Mill has two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars under segmental heads to the ground floor. Segmental brick mill race arch to left of mill range.
Internally the mill retains much of its original machinery including hurst with enclosed equipment, stone floor with wooden upright shaft, crownwheel etc., remains of wire machine, grain bins, water control mechanism and other items. The undershot waterwheel has largely rotted away. (March 1985).
(Dorset Mills Survey, notes.)
Listing NGR: ST9370205988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103775
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 113
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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