Description

NU OO SE
17/261

ROTHBURY
B 6344
(South side, off)
Thrum Mill
The Old Mill with
attached wall to
north-west


II

Mill and attached wall. C18, heightened and wings added in early C19. Tooled
stone; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular 3-storey main block with external wheel
at south end, and tower wings to east and west.

West elevation 3 storeys, 2 bays. Ground floor has boarded door on left and
projecting gabled wing on right; 1st floor has 9-pane and 4-pane casements,
2nd floor part-slatted windows. Remains of blocked C18 windows in lower part
of wall. Coped gables, stepped-and-banded left end stack. Wing has doorway
and window on left return, cast-iron slatted ridge vent and stepped-and-corniced
end stack. Attached 15-metre-long wall on far left has chamfered set back at
mid-height and gabled coping.

Left return has 2 steps up to central boarded door. Rear elevation shows
central projecting wing flanked by blocked windows, and 2 part-slatted windows
to 2nd floor. Wing has arched opening under part-slatted window in end wall,
chamfered eaves cornices and hipped roof; external stone stair to boarded door
on right return. Right return of main block shows fragmentary remains of
wheel, and central lst-floor window.

Interior altered; west wing contains remains of drying kiln.

Listing NGR: NU0681401591

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Old Mill With Attached Wall To North West at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26293873

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Recommended Books

• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback