Description

ASHPRINGTON

SX85NW TUCKENHAY
6/59 Mill Adjoining South
West of Millhouse
Farmhouse

GV II

Water corn mill. Circa early C19. Local stone rubble with large roughly
dressed quoins and rendered on the south west side. Slate roof with gable
ends.
Plan: Rectangular on plan with the gable end to the road and an overshot
water-wheel on the left (south west) side. The mill forms a cross-wing to
Millhouse Farmhouse (qv) to the right. The mill projects to the rear of the
house which seems to have been built after the house.
Exterior: 3 storeys. Gable end to the road; ground floor has a doorway to
the right with a plank door and a 3-light window to the left; similar window
at the centre of the first floor and a 2-light window in the gable on the
second floor; all the openings have dressed stone segmented arches.
There is a large iron overshot waterwheel on the left had side.
The rear elevation was not inspected but may have upper floor access from the
higher ground level behind.
Interior: was inaccessible at the time of the survey 1987, but is is said to
contain machinery which was apparently working about 10 years ago.

Listing NGR: SX8185056098

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513573

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)