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Hannover Mill, Outbuildings and Mill

A Grade II Listed Building in Mersham, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1144 / 51°6'52"N

Longitude: 0.9268 / 0°55'36"E

OS Eastings: 604952

OS Northings: 139091

OS Grid: TR049390

Mapcode National: GBR SYP.14Q

Mapcode Global: VHKKW.08V0

Plus Code: 9F324W7G+QP

Entry Name: Hannover Mill, Outbuildings and Mill

Listing Date: 16 February 1989

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1233522

English Heritage Legacy ID: 409026

ID on this website: 101233522

Location: The Forstal, Ashford, Kent, TN25

County: Kent

District: Ashford

Civil Parish: Mersham

Built-Up Area: Brabourne Lees

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


TR 03 NW MERSHAM THE FORSTAL
(east side)


6/114 Hannover Mill,
outbuildings
and mill


GV II

Mill and mill house. C18 or earlier core, remodelled and greatly
extended 1879. Milling machinery by Holmans of Canterbury. Red brick
with some tile hung framing. Plain tiled roof. Half-courtyard plan.
Main range: 2 storeys and attic, the house section to left with bracketed
eaves to return hipped roof with stack at end left, margin light sash
and (blank) name plaque on 1st floor, margin light sash with door of
6 panels and rectangular fanlight on ground floor, both with cornices
on brackets. Mill building to right, with 2 hipped dormers, 2
segmentally headed casements on each floor with boarded doors between
(on both floors). Three storey block to right, with half-hipped roof
and central stack with 1 wooden casement on each floor and open passage-
way doorway to ground floor. Projecting range to right: 2 storey
framed range, tile over brick, with wooden casement on 1st floor and
boarded loft door, 3 boarded and half-glazed doors and mullion and
transomed shop window on ground floor. Three storey end block, with
returned half-hipped roof. Two wooden casements on second floor, 1
each on 1st and ground floors, with boarded 1st floor door to left,
half-glazed door on ground floor. Rear elevation with tile hung
upper storeys to main mill building. Small single storey brick out-
house with wooden casement. Brick on ragstone sluice and race walls
(the whole mill complex is built on ragstone reinforced walls to stream
side) extending some 20 metres upstream. Iron sluice gates with passage
over. The wheel is a 12 foot diameter breast-shot wheel with 56
buckets driving 3 sets of stones originally, now only 2. The whole
wheel and machinery is enclosed within the mill building.


Listing NGR: TR0496439092

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