Chalkney Mill
CHALKNEY MILL, COLCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337879
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Chalkney Mill
- Statutory Address:
- CHALKNEY MILL, COLCHESTER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337879
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Chalkney Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHALKNEY MILL, COLCHESTER ROAD
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:
- CHALKNEY MILL, COLCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earls Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87526 28386
Details
TL 8628-8728 EARLS COLNE COLCHESTER ROAD (south side)
9/49 Chalkney Mill 27.10.75
GV II
Watermill, under conversion to a dwelling at time of survey, April 1986. Early C18, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed and weatherboarded with some red brick, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing E, of 2 storeys and attic. C19 rear extension, of 2 storeys, with lean-to roof of slate, and external stack at right side. C20 single-storey extension at right end, with lean-to roof of slate. 4-window range of C20 wooden casements, C19 cast iron casement of 20 lights in gabled dormer. 2 temporary doors on ground floor, plain boarded door on first floor. One CL9 cast iron casement with Gothic Revival tracery in each gable. The interior retains the wheel pit with an iron shaft by Whitmore and Binyon of Wickham Market, the wallower and wooden spur wheel. Built as a fulling mill it was converted for corn milling in the C19, with 2 1/2 storey extension at the right end and an engine house and tall chimney to the rear, demolished since 1974. Last used for milling in the 1930s, (H. Benham, Some Essex Water Mills, 1976, 78).
Listing NGR: TL8752628386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115897
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Benham, H, Some Essex Water Mills, (1976), 78
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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