Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill Building)

KEMYEL MILLS (UPPER MILL BUILDING)

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327508
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill Building)
Statutory Address:
KEMYEL MILLS (UPPER MILL BUILDING)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327508
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill Building)
Statutory Address 1:
KEMYEL MILLS (UPPER MILL BUILDING)

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KEMYEL MILLS (UPPER MILL BUILDING)

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
National Grid Reference:
SW 44666 24642

Details

PAUL LAMORNA SW 42 SW 8/18 Kemyel Mills (Upper Mill building) - GV II Watermill, probably C18. Granite moorstone rubble walls with some dressed moorstone. Grouted scantle slate roof at rear, replaced with corrugated asbestos at the front. Gable ends. Plan: Fairly small rectangular plan, built into the bank carrying the leat at the rear. Circa late C19 overshot wheel at the right-hand end. No internal machinery. Exterior: Low 2-storeys. Irregular 2 window south-west front with very small window openings. Doorway slightly left of middle with window on its left. Window in left- hand gable end is reused millstone fragment. Right-hand end has small window over the wheel flanked by 2 smaller openings. Wheel has cast-iron hub and segments, oak spokes. Interior: Simple interior has C19 roof structure, sockets for former floor structure at the right hand end and other niche. The machinery has been taken out.

Listing NGR: SW4466624642

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
69576
Legacy System:
LBS

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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