Boar Mill
BOAR MILL, 2, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323454
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Boar Mill
- Statutory Address:
- BOAR MILL, 2, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323454
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boar Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOAR MILL, 2, EAST STREET
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:
- BOAR MILL, 2, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96064 82199
Details
CORFE CASTLE EAST STREET (West side) SY 96 82 7/48 No 2 (Boar Mill) (formerly listed as Old Mill and Bakery) 20.11.59 GV II House with attached former watermill. Mill C18, house part late C18, part early C19. Rubble stone walls, roofs part stone slate, part tiled with stone eaves courses. 2 brick stacks and one stone stack. Irregular L-shaped plan. At left end a single storey range - former stables etc., with stone slate roof. Ledged door in reduced opening. Two C20 casements with lead lights. Right of this the former bakery house of 2 storeys with tiled roof. Battened door under segmental brick arch. Ground floor has 2 C20 casements with lead lights under similar arches. First floor has 2 similar windows, with fanlights - no arches. Large bake oven in ground floor room. Right of this, the former mill house, with stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Battened door. Ground floor has one C20 casement with lead lights. First floor has one similar window, with fanlight. Right of this the mill projects as a gabled wing. 2-storey and attic. In the angle between mill and house a shuttered window set diagonally under stone slate pentice rcof. In left flank wall of mill a stable door on ground floor and loft door over. In end gable wall a small blocked window in attic. Various rear lean-tos including large bake oven at rear of house. Mill machinery largely intact. Sluices east of the mill. Picturesque group at base of Castle mound. (RCHM, Monument 27. Dorset. Vol. II. Dorset Watermill Survey).
Listing NGR: SY9605982202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109200
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dorset Watermills Survey, (1985)
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
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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