Description

SO 61 NE LITTLEDEAN

Mill at Gun's Mills
6/67 (formerly Listed as Barn at Gunn's
Mills, East Dean Parish)
23.9.55

GV II*

Formerly blast-furnace, later paper mill, now unused. 1682/3 (on
iron lintels), mid C18. Coursed, squared rubble to furnace and
blowing chamber, ashlar dressings and corrugated-iron roof to
latter; upper building part rubble stone, part timber-framed, with
slate roof. 'L' plan, pivoted on furnace, wings at different
levels. Square blast-furnace at lower level, with tapering recess
in main face, roof sloping back to main wall line, with 2 iron
lintels. Doors at ground floor and in sloping face above. This
recess repeated on left return, in blowing chamber, with dated
lintels. Inside square chamber with sloping walls above 2m.
Narrow top now covered by stone slab in floor of room above.
Blowing chamber on left with opening against furnace, then 2
windows, unclosed: upper part of wall rebuilt in concrete block,
(originally 2 floors). Behind pit, 7.5m long for overshot water-
wheel: small arched recess in back wall. Space in front of
furnace and blowing chamber was casting floor. Upper level at
right-angles; timber-framed over furnace, 3-bays, built as paper
mill. Wattle and daub infill to gable wall, open or glazed sides
in 2 panels per bay: partition to stone section beyond, 3 bays,
with floor over at eaves level. Trusses queen strut. Stone
section 2 large openings in gable, one in side leading to 4-bay
wing. Furnace originally built 1628, probably destroyed 1650;
rebuilt 1682/3. Converted to papermill by 1743, and so used to at
least 1900: furnace became stairs. Mill pond lay beyond house
now filled in. Considered to be 'best remaining furnace of
the earliest phase of British blast-furnace practice'. (C. Hart,
The Industrial History of Dean, 1971, p. 43, 70, 379).

Listing NGR: SO6751115958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Mill At Gun's Mills at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17537417

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair