Description

BRIDESTOWE
SX 48 NE

11/45 Bidlake Mill
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- II

Watermill. C17. Slate rubble walls. Scantle slate roof gabled to right end, half-
hipped to left. At right-hand end is a chimney constructed of 4 upright slates.
Rectangular plan of 1 room on each floor with overshot water wheel against rear
wall.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical front with wide doorway to the left and a small window to
its right. Built into the hill at right-hand end where a doorway leads to the 1st
floor room. The wooden overshot water wheel survives at the rear and water is
brought to it on wooden launders.
Interior: some original roof trusses survive with lapped and pegged collars and
mortices for threaded purlins; now considerably repaired. The mill machinery
appears to survive intact.
The mill was used to grind corn until the 1930's after which the wheel was geared
for carpentry machinery and used for such until 1956.

Listing NGR: SX4859988055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458512

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)