Old Mill House
OLD MILL HOUSE, LOUDWATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348230
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD MILL HOUSE, LOUDWATER LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348230
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD MILL HOUSE, LOUDWATER 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:
- OLD MILL HOUSE, LOUDWATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 05329 96157
Details
TQ 09 NE RICKMANSWORTH LOUDWATER LANE (West side) Rickmansworth
6/185 Old Mill House
II
House, formerly part of paper mill. Late C17 or early C18 origins, extended and altered in C19 and C20. Timber frame, rendered. Sham timber frame applied. Slate roofs. 4 bays. 2 storeys. Ground floor entrance with a C20 hood. C20 2 light casements. Modillioned boxed eaves. C19 range to left is former wheelhouse with the River Chess running beneath it, forward projecting with a coped parapet to a gable with kneelers. A cross axial ridge stack to right of centre and end stacks, that on right return extruded. Entrance on right return with a C20 hood. To rear 3 gables, central projecting oriel, ground floor projecting bay to right. Interior: exposed timber frame. Built as part of a corn mill which was converted to paper production by J. Shipton c.1750, owned by H. Ingram of the 'Illustrated London News' from 1846 to 1858 and closed 1885. (G. Cornwall 'Paper Making in Rickmansworth', Rickmansworth Historian, No.38, 1981).
Listing NGR: TQ0532996157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rickmansworth Historian in Rickmansworth Historian, Vol. 38, (1981)
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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