Hembury Mill

HEMBURY MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1390607
Date first listed:
19-Sept-2003
List Entry Name:
Hembury Mill
Statutory Address:
HEMBURY MILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1390607
Date first listed:
19-Sept-2003
List Entry Name:
Hembury Mill
Statutory Address 1:
HEMBURY MILL

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
HEMBURY MILL

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Askerswell
National Grid Reference:
SY5257093112

Details

ASKERSWELL

308/0/10014 Hembury Mill 19-SEP-03

GV II Grist mill. Circa early C19. Limewashed stone rubble. Welsh slate roof with gabled ends. PLAN: Rectangular on plan with water-wheel on east side and outshuts on north and south sides. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and loft. South front with outshut on left with lean-to slate roof and loading doorway to right. North elevation has outshuts with lean-to slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Large iron undershot water wheel on east side. Hembury Mill Cottage qv. attached to west side. INTERIOR: Floors supported on timber beams and joists. Staggered tenoned-purlin roof structure. Intact mill machinery, including millstones, grain bins and sack hoists. A good example of a small grist mill, complete with C19 machinery.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
490342
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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