Old Bridge at Stream Mill
OLD BRIDGE AT STREAM MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391386
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bridge at Stream Mill
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BRIDGE AT STREAM MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391386
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bridge at Stream Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BRIDGE AT STREAM 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.
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:
- OLD BRIDGE AT STREAM MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Wealden (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chiddingly
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 55500 15530
Details
CHIDDINGLY
981/0/10054 Old Bridge at Stream Mill 26-SEP-05
GV II Single span bridge, probably of late C18 or early C19 date, with some later repair. Ashlar blocks, buttressed with brick repair and stone infill. Deck of slag.
DESCRIPTION: The keystone and arch is of ashlar. Parapet of wooden posts. Brick buttresses of probable early C19 type bonding. The deck of the bridge is of slag with stone protruding from the surface. Spillway on south side constructed of stone and brick. The bridge is closely associated with the operation of the nearby mill, and has the grooves of a sluice gate on the stone blocks of its north side, by which it regulated the water flow from the mill pond. The track over the bridge is the major bridle way through the village with links to the Weald and the Vanguard Way.
HISTORY: The bridge is closely associated with a mill which lies about 100m to its south east. On the north side of the bridge supports are the slots for sluice gates to control the flow of water from the mill pond, showing that the bridge dates at least from the time of the working mill. The mill, in turn, is associated with iron working on the site. It is first mentioned in the Doomsday Book, and iron working on the site dates from C15, when it was controlled by the Elphic family who were listed in documentary sources as 'iron masters'. In the mid 1500s the iron works passed to the French family, who were also 'iron masters', and is again mentioned in early C17 in the ownership of James Lullham. Canon boring took place in the Tudor period south of the bay near the mill. The mill was originally a hammer mill for the iron works, but by the early 1800s the iron working had ceased, and the mill became a corn mill.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The bridge is significant as a well preserved late C18 - early C19 bridge, with an intact spillway, and as an integral part of the working of the nearby corn mill. Potential earlier fabric in the bridge gives it additional interest, as it ties the bridge to earlier uses of mill for iron working. The bridge also has group value with the nearby listed, C17 or earlier, Stream Farmhouse, and Barn, which has C16 and C17 elements. SOURCES: H Cleere and D Crossley, The Iron Industry of the Weald (1985).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cleere, H, Crossley, D, The Iron Industry of the Weald, (1985)
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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