The Mill House and Attached Mill Buildings
THE MILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED MILL BUILDINGS, DOWN HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330851
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Mill House and Attached Mill Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- THE MILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED MILL BUILDINGS, DOWN HALL
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- Date:
- 2003-07-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/06154/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330851
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Mill House and Attached Mill Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED MILL BUILDINGS, DOWN HALL
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:
- THE MILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED MILL BUILDINGS, DOWN HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abington Pigotts
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30420 43677
Details
TL 3043 ABINGTON PIGOTTS DOWN HALL
19/11 The Mill House and attached mill buildings.
GV II
House, formerly the mill house with attached water mill. Mid C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered. Common brick ridge stack replacing original. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys, three timber-framed bays with original three unit plan slightly modified. Four-panelled door in lobby entry position, three ground floor and four first floor horizontal sliding sash and casement windows of various sizes. Interior; sealed red brick hearth with some clunch walling, exposed floor frames and timber frame; original roof. The partly demolished mill building to the north-east has the cast iron mill wheel in situ. A mill associated with Downhall manor is mentioned in 1339. (VCH)
VCH Vol VIII p8. Pigott Estate Map 1804 CUL Stevens, R Cambridge Windmills and Watermills, 1985
Listing NGR: TL3042043677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52411
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 8
Stephens, R, Wind and Watermills of Cambridgeshire, (1985)
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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