Description

ST HILARY SW 53 SW 2/119 Carbis Mill

GV II

Miller's house and adjoining mill. Datestones 1754. Probably rebuilt circa early C19. Granite and elvan rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones and lintels. House roofs : asbestos slate, with gable ends and brick chimney over left hand gable end. Mill roof : taller than house; scantle slate with gable ends. Plan: 2 room house left with possibly later outshut behind left hand side and single storey lean-to behind right hand side; rectangular mill, right of house, with machinery removed circa 1960's (formerly with overshot wheel on right hand side and at rear). The house has kitchen, left, and slightly smaller parlour right with lobby and stair between. The room behind the kitchen has a fireplace (possibly for washhouse) and the room behind the stair and parlour was formerly a pig's house. Exterior : 2 storey house and 3 storey mill. House has nearly symmetrical 3 window south-west front with doorway slightly right of middle, 4-panel door with flush- beaded panels and circa early Cl.9 12-pane hornless sashes. Stone over doorway inscribed : FE 1753 and stone in left hand gable end inscribed 1753. Mill, right, has slightly irregular 2 window front. Doorway towards left with small window on either side. Jambstone, far left, inscribed : JW 1874. Loading doorway over ground floor doorway. Ledged doors. Shutters to second floor windows. Gable end, right, has large ground floor doorway (cut C20), holes for machinery over and small gable window with reused millstone as lintel. Rear has holes for machinery to thicker ground floor wall and 2 windows to each floor above. Interior of house has C19 carpentry and joinery.

Listing NGR: SW5533333522

External Links

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