Mill Cottage and Attached Water Pump

MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WATER PUMP, SAXBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1360857
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottage and Attached Water Pump
Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WATER PUMP, SAXBY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1360857
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Mill Cottage and Attached Water Pump
Statutory Address 1:
MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WATER PUMP, SAXBY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WATER PUMP, SAXBY ROAD

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Melton (District Authority)
Parish:
Freeby
National Grid Reference:
SK 81273 18830

Details

SK 81 NW FREEBY SAXBY ROAD

Stapleford (east side) 6/41 Mill Cottage and attached water pump

II

Watermill and mill house, now a house. Mid C19 with mid C20 additions. Brick with stone dressings and pantile roofs. Gables with bargeboards, grouped central ridge stack with stalks set diagonally. Single storey plus attics, 3 bays. East front has central gabled porch with Tudor arched doorway and plank door, and above it, blank-moulded panel. On the left side, a casement. Beyond to left, a casement with hood mould. Both casements have moulded stone reveals. Beyond, a lead pump in wooden case. To right, a lean-to addition and to its right, wheel opening with segmental head. Above it, a 2 light mullioned casement. Above, a central gabled cross eaves dormer with a 2 light mullioned casement. West side has an off-centre 3 light mullioned casement flanked by single C20 buttresses. To left, round headed tail race opening, flanked by single buttresses, and above it, a small casement with moulded reveal and hood mould. Above, a central cross eaves gabled dormer with a 2 light mullioned casement. North gable has a projecting 3 light mullioned casement with brick surround, flanked by single small square casements. Above, a central mullioned casement. South gable has a 3 light mullioned casement on each floor, that above with hooded projecting surround. To right, a mid C20 gabled addition with glazed door in return angle, and to south a 3 light casement. Interior not inspected and no machinery visible. This building was erected-as an Estate mill for Stapleford Park.

Listing NGR: SK8127318830

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
189813
Legacy System:
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Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,

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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