Description

The following building shall be added:-

TQ 26 NE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON Morden Road
Micham
4/132
- Ravensbury Mill
- II

Water mill, now factory. Mid/late C18: C1880 main block. Main block of stock
brick with hipped slate roof. L-plan with rear right wing; 7-window
range. Cambered red brick arch over plank loft door with iron-crane hoist above
plank double doors. Cambered red brick arches over cast-iron casements to first
floor and blocked window openings to ground floor. Mid/late C18 one-story range
to left, of stock brick with gabled concrete tile roof: red brick cambered arch
and timber lintels over blocked window openings and plank door in mid C19 bay
added to left: right-hand bay houses water wheel. Interior: notable for retention
of two iron undershot water wheels, dated I.C.R./1884, and of the "Poncelot" type
(after invention by J.C.Poncelot, 1824): each have curved sheet-iron buckets and
cast or wrought-iron draft; wooden pit wheel to left, probably re-used and of
earlier date.

Listing NGR: TQ2640168167

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26355888

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)