BOW MILL HOUSE, WITH ATTACHED MILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366476
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: BOW MILL HOUSE, WITH ATTACHED MILL
Statutory Address:: BOW MILL HOUSE, WITH ATTACHED MILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366476
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: BOW MILL HOUSE, WITH ATTACHED MILL
Statutory Address 1:: BOW MILL HOUSE, WITH ATTACHED 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:: BOW MILL HOUSE, WITH ATTACHED MILL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Merriott
National Grid Reference:: ST 45802 13449

Details

ST41SE MERRIOTT CP

3/97 Bow Mill House, with attached mill 4.2.58

GV II

Mill house and watermill. Later C17, but some rebuilding after fire in 1862, Has stone ashlar; undulating roof with plain clay tiles over stone slate base courses, between tall coped gables suggesting former thatch; brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys with attics, west elevation 5 bays. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, of 3, 2 and 3 lights first floor bays 3, 4 and 5, 4-lights ground floor bay 3 and 3-light ground floor bay 5, this last being the only with separate label; shared label to ground floor bay 3 and cambered-arched doorway to bay 4, which has pair of earlier C19 doors with toplights. Bay 1, the mill, has a door at first floor level approached by stone steps; part-glazed door to ground floor bay 2. South elevation similar, of 3 bays, with gable to bay 1: 2-light window to attic, 3-light window to first floor, with labels; 2-light without label ground floor bay 1, C20 French doors lower bay 2, 3-light mullioned window with label ground floor bay 3. Leanto at rear, and ground floor extension to mill building having stone access stair to left door on north gable. Interior not seen, but the mill wheel and leat both survived in 1977. This mill first recorded in 1373 present building may follow John Pitts purchase in 1669 mill badly damaged by fire in 1862 but rebuilt: mill apparently not in commercial use after 1896 (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1973, p58).

Listing NGR: ST4580213449

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Legacy System number:: 262342
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 58

Legal

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