ROWLAND'S MILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345847
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: ROWLAND'S MILL
Statutory Address:: ROWLAND'S MILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345847
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: ROWLAND'S MILL
Statutory Address 1:: ROWLAND'S MILL

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:: ROWLAND'S MILL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ashill
National Grid Reference:: ST3443216247

Details

ASHILL CP ST31NW 2/16 Rowland's Mill 4.2.58 II*

Water mill and mill house. Later C17. Ham stone near-ashlar with some brickwork; Welsh slate roof with tall coped gable to east, hipped to west; with heavy brick chimney stack on stone base. Two storeys with attic, south-east elevation 4 bays. String bands between floors; to bay 1 a 3-light casement below, and external iron drive-wheel above; to bay 2 are 3-light casements, formerly leaded, with attic window in gable having one light blocked set under square label; 3-light windows bay 4; casements damaged, and some covered over - they were mullioned and transomed with mostly ovolo mouldings: to lower bay 3 a boarded door in heavy frame under timber lintol, above which is a square stone plaque with moulded frame having unworked top mitres; above all windows are brickwork panels with semi-circular arched recesses under relieving arches. On west gable the hipped roof is cantilevered out on timber brackets, and under it the remains of the cast-iron water wheel, about 3 metres diameter, undershot pattern, and above a 3-light transomed and a 2-light attic window, with a small extension added north of the wheel. The east gable has a single-storey lean-to, above which are 2 two-light casements with semi-circular brick panels over which incorporate either vent holes or apertures for pigeons. The north elevation has a catslide roof with 2 gables and further casement windows, all formerly leaded. Most of the machinery survives, and some may be pre-C19, but the wheel, by Edward Peace of Taunton, is part of an 1851 remodelling, at which tide parts of the gable wall appear to have been rebuilt. Interior currently not easily accessible, but reported are three domestic roods on ground floor level, one with cross-corner fireplace and another with inserted copper/wash boiler, the third had a large fireplace, with an oven now removed: on first floor two domestic roods at east end, the larger with fireplace, with stud and panel partitioning: the attic rood was formerly connected to the house, rather than the mill. A detailed report suggests that the mill may have been for occasional estate use rather than general commercial purposes, and that the miller may have had a second occupation, such as weaving. The building neglected and subjected to some vandalism, December 1985: it is of importance on account of the brickwork, early for Somerset where pre-1700 examples are rare and for the machinery which is rudimentary and appears to incorporate pre C19 elements. (VAG Reports, SRO unpublished, December 1979 and September 1982).

Listing NGR: ST3443216247

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Legacy System number:: 263894
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in September, (1982)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in December, (1979)

Legal

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