CLUNTON MILL (DISUSED)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367026
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: CLUNTON MILL (DISUSED)
Statutory Address:: CLUNTON MILL (DISUSED)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367026
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: CLUNTON MILL (DISUSED)
Statutory Address 1:: CLUNTON MILL (DISUSED)

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:: CLUNTON MILL (DISUSED)

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Clunbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 33410 81188

Details

CLUNBURY C.P. CLUNTON SO 38 SW 3/74 Clunton Mill (disused) - GV II

Mill, now disused. Probably early C19 with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with red brick dressings and red brick on upper level to rear; slate roof. Main rectangular block with full-length outshut to rear housing wheel. 3 levels. Stable door to left and casement to right; segmental-headed window on each floor to right gable end. Circular iron ties. Outshut has segmental arch to mill race to left. Interior: remarkable survival of equipment. Undershot wheel has iron axle and wooden spokes and paddles; cogs for sluice gate adjoining. Ground floor of main building has stone-flag floor and massive plain cross beam. Ladder staircase to first floor. Corn bin to right and chute from later flour dresser to left. Gearing connected to millstones on first floor behind weather- boarded partition to right. Secondary wheel attached to main wheel. Apart from 2 millstones in situ first floor has pulleys for lifting gear. Late C19 or early C20 flour dresser in cupboard-like structure to left. Has notice attached (dated 1904 from Shropshire County Council Public Health Department) warning of the dangers of spreading consumption from spitting on floors and walls. Heavy plain cross beam and ladder staircase to second floor, which has more chutes and pulleys. Roof structure in 2 bays. The mill which was used to grind corn, stopped working commercially in 1936 and completely in 1938. The infilled mill pond lies immediately to west.

Listing NGR: SO3341081188

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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.