Description

TF 71 SW NARBOROUGH MAIN ROAD
(east side)

2/15 Narborough Mill
31.1.78

GV II

Former watermill. Late C18 with late C20 repairs. Brick, cars tone and
weatherboarding with pantile and corrugated iron roofs. 3 storeys with attic.
5 bays to which a sixth was added to north side in late C20 after the
demolition of C19 additions. 4 bays recessed within giant enclosing arches.
The arches are semicircular headed with raised ashlar keystones and imposts.
Ground and first floor windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches.
Southernmost bay with ground and first floor doorways. Second floor has 4
pivot windows with glazing bars beneath semicircular arches. The central
window is rectangular beneath a skewback arch. Dentil cornice. Central
weatherboarded loucum with corrugated iron roof. Carstone rubble south gable-
end. Rear wall weatherboarded with a continuous outshut housing machinery.
Sluice gates beneath a 3-centred arch. 5 C20 sash windows with glazing bars
in outshut. Bridge to front with 2 3-centred arches and a swept parapet.
Interior. 4.3m wheel driving pit-wheel and wallower. Horizontal mainshaft
with provision for 6 pairs of stones of which 5 survive.

Listing NGR: TF7471813193

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Narborough Watermill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q26462855 Q6965599

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]