WALKERN MILL, AND NUMBER 161 (MILLERS COTTAGE)

WALKERN MILL, AND NUMBER 161 (MILLERS COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308132
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1979
List Entry Name:: WALKERN MILL, AND NUMBER 161 (MILLERS COTTAGE)
Statutory Address:: WALKERN MILL, AND NUMBER 161 (MILLERS COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308132
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-May-1984
List Entry Name:: WALKERN MILL, AND NUMBER 161 (MILLERS COTTAGE)
Statutory Address 1:: WALKERN MILL, AND NUMBER 161 (MILLERS COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WALKERN MILL, AND NUMBER 161 (MILLERS COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Walkern
National Grid Reference:: TL 28593 25430

Details

TL 2825 WALKERN HIGH STREET (east side)

8/2 Walkern Mill, and No 161 (Millers Cottage) (formerly listed as 8.8.79 The Mill and Mill House)

GV II

Water mill on River Beane, and house adjoining, now residential. Mill rebuilt 1826, altered 1836 and 1856, converted to steam 1881, ceased working 1933, converted 1980-81. House early Cl7, cased in brick in mid C19, extended into ground floor of mill and porch added 1980-81. Red brick mill with gambrel roof. Welch slate upper slope, green Westmorland slate lower slope decorated with large and small lozenge motifs. A tall L-shaped block of 3 storeys and attics, with main range E-W and wing projecting to S. Broad pilasters at each bay narrowed above 2nd floor. Cast iron tie-plates. S gable has decorative cast iron windows under pointed arches, 2 to each floor and one to the attic. Segmental arches to wider windows elsewhere. Gabled lucam on N and S of main range, with glazed doors. Lettering painted on S gable 'G D PEARMAN/(WALKERN - defaced to confuse invaders 1939-45)/FLOUR MILLS/1881'(with '1828', 1836, and '1856' in smaller figures). Mill structure of timber beams and floors on cast iron columns largely replaced by reinforced concrete, but some columns re- used. Tall queen-post timber trusses remain in attic floor. Timber framed house adjoining mill on W, with red brick casing, buff segmental window arches, and steep old red tile roof. C20 extensions to NW not of special interest. 2-storeys, 3-bay structure, facing S, with W bay partitioned from 2-bay hall now abutting the mill on E. Symmetrical 3 windows front with parapeted gabled brick porch to central door. Recessed wooden casement windows. A central chimney at the W end of the hall serves the W end room, and a stair rises behind it. Later small chimney to E end of hall. Exposed timbers inside, with jowled posts, close studding with numbered joints, butt-purlin roof with tennoned rafters and wind braces. Rear slope raised with props from old structure. Face-halved bladed scarf in front wallplate. (Kelly (1914) 254: Branch Johnson (1970) 178: Pevsner (1977) 373).

Listing NGR: TL2859325430

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 159686
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 178
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 373
'Kellys Directory' in Hertfordshire, (1914), 254

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.