The Mill House and watermill
The Mill House and watermill, Cotton End Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374830
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Mill House and watermill
- Statutory Address:
- The Mill House and watermill, Cotton End Road
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374830
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Mill House and watermill
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Mill House and watermill, Cotton End 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.
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:
- The Mill House and watermill, Cotton End Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Exning
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6195465991
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10th February 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
TL 66 NW
1/88
NEWMARKET (including EXNING)
COTTON END ROAD
The Mill House and watermill
II
Mill house and attached watermill. Late C18. House: three windows, two storeys and attics. Red brick with string course at first floor. Plaintiled roof hipped at right hand end, with chimneys of red brick; lead flat roofed casement dormers with small-pane sashes.
Sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick and early C19 small-pane sashes. C18 entrance door with six fielded panels; oblong fanlight with radial glazing bars; flat lead-roofed semi-circular canopy with moulded fascia, on slender wooden Doric columns. A flat roofed semi-circular bay window, one storey, at side elevation.
Watermill: two storeys. Timber framed and rendered upper storey with herringbone pargetting; lower storey of clunch with gault brick dressings. Pantiled roof. Wooden two-
and three-light C18 and C19 windows with small-pane iron casements. Boarded doors. Machinery removed apart from wooden upright shaft, spurwheel and crownwheel: both these gearwheels are of wood with compass-arm construction; the waterwheel was overshot, unusual in Suffolk. The mill is in poor condition with partial collapse.
Listing NGR: TL6195465991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275648
- 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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