Description

SHORWELL

SZ48SW MILL LANE
1354-0/8/334 Yafford Mill
04/08/76
(Formerly Listed as:
Yafford Mill and Mill House)

II

Former mill and mill house, now house and museum. C18 Mill
house to left, mill to right. Mill house is of red brick with
one course of headers to 2 of stretchers. Tiled roof with
brick chimneystack. 2 storeys 2 windows. Casements and C19
lean-to porch. Mill building is of ironstone rubble with brick
dressings but gable end is of brick with some Flemish and some
English bond. 1st floor has blocked opening, ground floor has
1 casement. Simple doorcase concealed by stone brick and
thatched lean-to. Overshot wheel to right is a C20
replacement. Attached to the right hand side is a probably C17
section of stone wall, the remains of an earlier mill. Left
hand side has C19 projecting section of brick and ironstone
rubble with slate roof. 2 doors. Catslide roof to rear. Roof,
which open above both house and mill has chamfered staggered
purlins with some diagonal tension braces and collar beams.
Interior of mill has iron pit wheel, renewed wooden great spur
wheel, wallower, wooden upright shaft and C19 wheat and barley
shutes.

Listing NGR: SZ4468082123

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514797

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey