Monument record MDO44589 - Brimley Mill, Stoke Abbott
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Summary
The site comprises an early 19th century house with a mill attached to the end and two separate workshops. The house is of 3 storeys, with 3 bays and has a 2 storey extension. Built of rubble stone. The mill is of two bays, the overshot iron wheel and wooden / iron machinery is still in situ. The wheel projects through a door in the front elevation and there is an angled buttress to the front elevation. There is a 2 storeyed workshop attached to the corner of the mill, it is of approximately three bays with central taking-in doors and long multi-light windows. A similar second detached workshop in the yard has long windows, which replace earlier blocked windows, and has an extension with a weatherboarded end wall. There is also one other possible workshop in the modified detached privy block.
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Type and Period (6)
- CORN MILL (Georgian to Victorian - 1801 AD to 1899 AD)
- CORN MILL (Georgian to Hanoverian - 1801 AD to 1832 AD)
- MILL HOUSE (Georgian to Hanoverian - 1801 AD to 1832 AD)
- PRIVY HOUSE (Georgian to Hanoverian - 1801 AD to 1832 AD)
- TEXTILE WORKSHOP (Hanoverian to Victorian - 1833 AD to 1899 AD)
- WATER WHEEL (Hanoverian to Victorian - 1833 AD to 1899 AD)
Full Description
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SWX1421 Monograph: 1848. W Kelly's Post Office Directory Of Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire etc. 2704.
- <2> SWX1197 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1:2500 scale. 1:2500. 1:2500, Dorset Sheet XXIX.6, Surveyed 1888, Published 1889.
- <3> SDO17323 Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments. Externally held archive: RCH01/063 South West Textile Mills Project.
- <4>XY SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 1305402. [Mapped feature: #633993 ]
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Related Events/Activities (1)
Location
Grid reference | ST 44947 00183 (point) |
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Map sheet | ST40SW |
Civil Parish | Stoke Abbott; Dorset |
Protected Status/Designation
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: ST 40 SE 76
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 1305402
Record last edited
Nov 2 2022 4:01PM