Water Mill and Mill House
WATER MILL AND MILL HOUSE, THETFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376833
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Water Mill and Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- WATER MILL AND MILL HOUSE, THETFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376833
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Water Mill and Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER MILL AND MILL HOUSE, THETFORD 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:
- WATER MILL AND MILL HOUSE, THETFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ixworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 92746 71094
Details
TL 97 SW IXWORTH THETFORD ROAD (SOUTH SIDE)
1/64 Watermill and Mill House 14.7.55 (formerly listed as Ixworth Mill and Mill House)
GV II*
A disused watermill and mill house. C18. 3 storeys and attic. Timber-framed and weatherboarded, with lucam on the east end. Slate roof. Small-paned sash windows in flush frames. Internal cast iron breast shot water-wheel. 3 pairs of underdriven stones. Machinery complete; apart from east iron stone nuts, all in wood. 'I.Lowe - 1800' carved in large letters on the timber supporting the base of the upright shaft, dates the machinery. John Lowe was miller in the late C18/ and early C19 (see parish records in Record Office, Bury St. Edmunds). Mill House, early C17 and later. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Red brick tumbled gable on south, partly covered by later extension. Black glazed pantiles, internal chimney-stack. Late C19 casement windows with single glazing bar. North gable, facing road, has 2 small-paned sash windows in flush frames. Adjoins the west side of the Watermill.
Listing NGR: TL9274671094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 283641
- 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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