Description

WEST BUCKFASTLEIGH HIGHER COMBE
SX 66 NE

3/151 Mardle Woodhouse and
- Adjoining Mill.

- II

Miller's house and adjoining water-powered woollen mill, converted into cottages.
C18. Stone rubble with granite dressings and slate roof with gable and half-
hipped ends, and hipped corner. Two storeys and attic. L-shaped on plan.
The mill occupied the north west wing and the Miller's House and cottages in
the south east wing with stuccoed east front of eight window range. The house
to left is a four-window range with sashes complete with glazing bars on ground
floor, three-light casements above and fielded panel door off centre with
rectangular fanlight. Cottages to right have C19 casements inserted. Large
slated pentice hood over ground floor. Fire insurance plaque above. Two C20
gabled dormers. Granite ridge and end chimeny stacks. The house is slate hung
at rear. The mill wing to north west has original three-light casements on
south side with leaded panes, with slightly cambered granite arches to ground
floor windows. Lean-to on the west end with slurried slate roof. The north
side faces the stream and has blocked round and segmentally arched openings
at lower stream level and inserted with C19 casements above.

Listing NGR: SX6996768108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461741

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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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)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)