PRISTON MILL AND ATTACHED POND, DAM AND WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312681
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: PRISTON MILL AND ATTACHED POND, DAM AND WALLS
Statutory Address:: PRISTON MILL AND ATTACHED POND, DAM AND WALLS

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Date:: 1999-09-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312681
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: PRISTON MILL AND ATTACHED POND, DAM AND WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: PRISTON MILL AND ATTACHED POND, DAM AND WALLS

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:: PRISTON MILL AND ATTACHED POND, DAM AND WALLS

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Priston
National Grid Reference:: ST 69488 61533

Details

ST 66 SE PRISTON C.P. PRISTON MILL

2/37 Priston Mill and attached pond, dam and walls

G.V. II

Watermill on an ancient site, now all late C18/early C19. Rubble with freestone dressings and quoins, ashlar, double roman tile roofs with raised coped verges. 4 storeys, 2 windows all 3-light, outer 2 shuttered in segmental heads with keystones, ground floor has similar central door and double doors to right, all under 2 gables with obelisk finials; north elevation has 3 storeys, 2 windows, as front but only 2-light, at left, up flight of 3 steps are similar double doors under C20 lean-to porch, at right down steps is opening to wheel pit; south elevation has 4 storey, top floor blank, 3 windows, all 2-light casements as elsewhere, to right one is blocked, one half blocked, to left is wheel pit opening; west elevation shows only 2 storeys, similar details, windows above, doors below, remainder, including former window heads, obscured by pond dam walls, adjacent to mill and about 8 metres westward on the north side these are of ashlar, remainder flanking long, thin pond are of rubble. Interior: large cast iron overshot pitchback wheel drives complete works, wallower on oak shaft drives great spur wheel which drives pair of stones above; hoist traps remain; all in working order.

Listing NGR: ST6948861533

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Legacy System number:: 32730
Legacy System:: LBS

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