Description

WIMBORNE ST GILES
SU 01 SW and SU 0311 WIMBORNE ST GILES' VILLAGE

13/113 and 6/113 Mill House (formerly
15.3.55 listed as Brook House)

GV II

Possibly originally a paper mill, an inn in the C19, now a private house.
English-bond brickwork with tiled roofs and gable copings. Brick projecting
stack with 2 diagonally set flues bearing traces of arabesque decoration
in cement above. Further stack with 4 clustered flues on the ridge, right
of centre. Near symmetrical. 2 storeys and attics, 6 bays. 2 central bays
are surmounted by a gable with coping, apex finial and brick kneelers. Much
restored stone mullioned windows with square-headed lights and labels.
Those to the ground floor have sunk-chamfered surrounds and those to the
upper floor are ovolo-moulded. Gable has similar 3-light window. Central
elliptical-headed chamfered stone doorway. A mill race formerly passed
under the left-hand end of the structure.

Internal features (RCHM): left ground floor rooms have intersecting ceiling
beams, now cased but said to be unmoulded; central room has open fireplace
with plain timber bressummer and lightly chamfered stone jambs; first floor
rooms have plain beams resting on shaped brackets; roof of 4 plain collar-
beam trusses. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 98, no. 14. Newman, J and Pevsner, N.
The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 470).

Listing NGR: SU0300611992

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26446540

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)