BUCKTON MILL,WATER WHEEL AND SLUICE GATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349756
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: BUCKTON MILL,WATER WHEEL AND SLUICE GATE
Statutory Address:: BUCKTON MILL,WATER WHEEL AND SLUICE GATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349756
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: BUCKTON MILL,WATER WHEEL AND SLUICE GATE
Statutory Address 1:: BUCKTON MILL,WATER WHEEL AND SLUICE GATE

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:: BUCKTON MILL,WATER WHEEL AND SLUICE GATE

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Buckton and Coxall
National Grid Reference:: SO 38460 73312

Details

SO 37 SE BUCKTON & COXALL CP -

5/38 Buckton Mill, water wheel and sluice gate

GV II

Water mill. Probably late C18 to early C19 with later alterations. Sand- stone rubble with brick dressings. Welsh slate and tiled roofs with brick stacks. L-plan with main range aligned north-west/south-east and subsidiary arm to north-east at south end. Two to three storeys with attics. South elevation has tall gable front to left. To left side of gable are two round- headed cast-iron glazing bar casements, one to the first and one to the second floor. Both have brick heads. In the top of the gable is a window under a cambered head. Entry to left side with cambered head and ledged door is approached across foot bridge. Lower late C19 right part is remodelled. Two casements, one to each floor, both late C20 and with two lights. Cresting to tiled roof. Overlapping the two parts is a large cast-iron water wheel with a diameter of about 12 feet on each visible spoke of which is inscribed in raised lettering: C HODGES LUDLOW FOUNDRY 1858. Sluice gates are operated by wheels from footbridge. Interior has C18 staircase of two flights with turned balusters and moulded handrails. Drive shaft from water wheel with cast iron crown wheel and pinion to ground floor. First floor has earlier wooden pinion, fielded late C18 panelled door and ex situ Coakbrookdale cast- iron fireplace with swags, urns and eared jambs. Attic has cat-walk, wooden pulleys, drums and chains. The trusses have queen-posts and raking struts. Buckton Mill is said to have last operated in 1947 and to have been built in 1798.

Listing NGR: SO3846073312

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Legacy System number:: 149504
Legacy System:: LBS

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