Sheffield Mill
SHEFFIELD MILL, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353726
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield Mill
- Statutory Address:
- SHEFFIELD MILL, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353726
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Sheffield Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEFFIELD MILL, MILL 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:
- SHEFFIELD MILL, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fletching
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 41566 25766
Details
In the entry for;
TQ 42 NW
18/792
FLETCHING
SHEFFIELD MILL
II
GV
the entry shall be amended to read;
TQ 42 NW
18/792
17.10.90
FLETCHING
MILL LANE
Sheffield Mill
GV
II* (star)
Water mill. Commissioned, together with the house, by Richard Leech of Sheffield Park in
1597-98, the first miller recorded as David Finch, but restored in the early C19 and extended in
1869. Some minor C20 alterations. Timberframed building but ground floor (and first floor to
the east) faced in brick; English bond brickwork to east, Flemish bond to west with grey
headers and some ashlar inserted on south. First floor weatherboarded with tiled roof and
catslide to west. North and south side have two C20 casements, south side has blocked door
opening and inserted 1920s garage doors. Interior of 2 bays retains 3 late Cl6 jowled corner
posts though cut away. Central chamfered beam with run out stop. Old rafters. Lean to to west
added c1869. This is the only remaining example in Sussex of a horizontal wooden layshaft. It
has been dated to the period 1810-1820. It drives 2 pairs of millstones with 3 pairs of wooden
gearwheels. Circa 1869, Samuel Medhurst, the Lewes millwright, extended the building and
put in a cast iron overshot waterwheel and a cruciform shaft with a new iron pitwheel. A cast
iron wallower was put in to mesh with the earlier layshaft and hursting. The wire machine,
grain bins, floorboards and wooden steps also date from this period. Sheffield Mill ceased
working in 1928. A list of millers survives back to James Diver in 1828.
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TQ 42 NW
18/792
FLETCHING
SHEFFIELD MILL
II
GV
Water mill. Probably early C19 on site of mill mentioned in Domesday Book and
incorporating C17 reused timbers. Base of tooled sandstone with C19 English bond
brickwork above to right hand side, weatherboarding to front and Flemish bond diaper
brickwork to left hand side. Renewed tiled roof. Iron overshot waterwheel of 1869.
The interior is of 2 bays with some reused timbers, including a C17 central beam with
run out stop. It retains 2 pairs of stones driven from a horizontal shaft and also
a drive to a wire machine. The stones are on a wooden hursting and there is an old
pitwheel, a cruciform wheel-shaft and a cast iron waterwheel with rusted buckets.
These appear to have been installed in 1869 by Medhurst's, the Lewes millwrights. A
list of millers survives back to 1828.
Listing NGR: TQ4156625766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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