Furnace Mill, Walls and Outbuildings
FURNACE MILL, WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, FURNACE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336941
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Furnace Mill, Walls and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- FURNACE MILL, WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, FURNACE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336941
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Furnace Mill, Walls and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- FURNACE MILL, WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, FURNACE LANE
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:
- FURNACE MILL, WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, FURNACE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamberhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ6614736138
Details
LAMBERHURST FURNACE LANE TQ 6636-6736 (north side) 8/159 Furnace Mill, walls and outbuildings attached GV II
Mill, wall and outbuildings. C18, extended early C19. Timber framed and weather boarded with red brick on ground floor and with plain tiled roof, and extended with red brick. Two storey and garret mill building with half-hipped gambrel roof. Two 3 light wooden casements on first floor and central boarded loft door and 3 light casement to left on ground floor and 2 doubled cart doors to centre and to right. Lean-to outshot to right. Projecting from low in the left return side is the wheel axle, now in a dry wheel pit. The internal flooring and fittings for machinery survive, as do some elements of the machinery itself. Attached to right a single storey stable block with 3 strap hinged half-doors, and beyond that a red brick wall, about 6 feet in height and extending some 30 metres with a gateway, and linking to a red brick and tiled outhouse to the north of the main house. The site is one of great historical and archaeological importance, the Gloucester Furnace, the largest iron working furnace and mill in the Weald C17/C18 was located here; there are also earthwork remains in the vicinity and extending down the valley to Peppermills.
Listing NGR: TQ6614536131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169996
- 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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