Description

STRETTON-EN-LE-FIELD
SK 31 SW
4/91
Stretton Mill
II
Mill, now house, of 1633 and c1700 with large c1960 right hand additions
encasing part of original. Plain tiled roof: rebuilt stacks.
Original part stone, 1½ storeys, with 3-light stone mullion window and
Tudor arched door to its right with C20 dormer above and stone date plaque
1633. To rear mullion window with dripmould, mullions removed, and
single light over. At left a C19 1 storey hipped roof extension over
millstream, C20 windows. To right, enclosed in C20 additions part of
stone range with 2 original doorways and sundial on internal former end
wall. Here joins brick range of c1700 with inglenook and beamed ceilings.
This range totally encased. On first floor of stone range massive tie
beams and a section of close studding with dovetails showing are visible.
Site mentioned in Domesday Book as having a mill. Ashton, N,
Leicestershire Water Mills, Wymondham, 1977, p 92, where also photograph
of mill before c1960 alterations.

Listing NGR: SK3015612315

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472773

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House