Listed Building: MILL TO NORTH EAST OF THE MEADOWS (THE MEADOWS NOT INCLUDED) (468023)

WEYMOUTH SY68SE WEST END, Radipole 873-1/2/510 Mill to north-east of The Meadows (The Meadows not included) GV II Corn mill, disused. Late C18 and early C19. A 2-part building in a long narrow range, at right angles to and N of the mill house. Rubble, some brick dressings, half-hipped slate roof. The left-hand section, probably the earlier, is in 2 storeys, with tall 2-light small-pane casements each side of plank doors at each level; the ground floor has some stone V-joint quoins at either end. The longer section, to the right, is in 3 storeys, with 4 shallow 6-pane lights at first and second floors, and, at the ground floor, a plank door, 2-light casement, wide pair of plank doors, and a small 9-pane light. All openings have shallow brick segmental heads, mainly inserted in the later C20. The left gable has a 3-light casement at eaves level, and the right gable has a deep-set first-floor door above a plank ground-floor door. The rear has scattered openings, and, in the older section, to the right, a broad brick segmental arch over the leat entry. INTERIOR: retains the main wheel at the left-hand end; this is an overshot wheel in 3 sections, approx 2.2m diameter, and approx 4m wide. There are remnants of the supports for the stones above. Early rough beams remain throughout, floors have been generally renewed in the late C19; the 3-storey section has lost the upper floor, the cut-off ends of floor joists remain in the walls. One of several mills on the Wey, and unusually not as yet made into dwellings. The building is grouped with the mill house, The Meadows (not included), and a domestic range to the E. The dry leat remains. Listing NGR: SY6613981615

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