OVERSHOT MILL

OVERSHOT MILL, MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337913
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
List Entry Name:: OVERSHOT MILL
Statutory Address:: OVERSHOT MILL, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337913
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
List Entry Name:: OVERSHOT MILL
Statutory Address 1:: OVERSHOT MILL, MILL LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OVERSHOT MILL, MILL LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Colne Engaine
National Grid Reference:: TL 86046 29907

Details

TL 82 NE COLNE ENGAINE MILL LANE (north side)

6/22 Overshot Mill 21.6.62

- II

Water mill, now a house. C18. First storey of red brick in Flemish bond, remainder timber framed and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay plain tiles. Aligned NW-SE, with wheelpit at SE end, and 1 1/2 storey lean-to extension beyond; attached early C19 granary at NW end. 3 storeys and attics; granary of one storey. Ground floor, 2 C19 casements and 2 plain boarded doors, sliding vehicle door to extension, also boarded. First floor, one C19 and 2 C20 casements; halved loading door, with half-glazed C20 door inside. Second floor, one C20 casement. Gambrel lucam at attic floor on 2 curved braces, with C20 plain window. Roof half-hipped at both ends. Granary raised on brick piers, with low-pitched pyramidal roof of slate. A cast iron pulley projects from the rear. The fall is 17 feet (5.18 m) and the original overshot wheel of diameter 16 feet (4.87 m) was exceptional in Essex. The mill was originally built for fulling in 1640, but converted or rebuilt as a corn mill in the late C18. It ground cereals on a small scale in connection with a wholefood business until 1944, and also powered a dynamo. About 1966 the waterwheel was replaced by a turbine, made by Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon, driving a 4 kw alternator. Retains the pit wheel, wallower, wooden vertical shaft, wood-cogged crown pinion and 2 pairs of Dell stones (Colne Engaine, the Story of an Essex Parish, 1975, 18-19, and H. Benham, Some Essex Water Mills, 1976, 79-80).

Listing NGR: TL8604629907

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Legacy System number:: 115871
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colne Engaine The Story of an Essex Parish, (1975), 18-19
Benham, H, Some Essex Water Mills, (1976), 79-80

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.