Description

SAWLEY GRANTLEY ROAD
SE 26 NW (east side, off)

4/132 Grantley Mill

- II

Watermill, now timber store. Late C18 and C19. Coursed squared gritstone,
graduated stone slate and corrugated asbestos roof. West side: 2 storeys,
3:1 bays, right bay added. Board door in fourth bay under a wide arch with
tooled voussoirs. Small square window under eaves to left of straight join
with main range. Remainder of this range obscured by a C19 lean-to addition
with double board doors under rock-faced rusticated voussoirs at right
(south) end. Gable copings, end stack to left. Rear (east side): 3
storeys; central doorway to wheelhouse has quoined surround and tooled
lintel; board door far right; 2 windows between, the left giving ventilation
to wheelhouse, the right having a cast-iron frame of 25 small panes. First
floor: single iron-framed window above wheelhouse door; group of 3 windows
to right - the central taller window a sash with glazing bars, flanked by
iron-framed fixed windows. Tooled sills and deep lintels to all windows.
Left return: central cast-iron framed window of 25 panes to each floor with
dressed stone sills and lintels. Right return: small loading door to first
floor; single-light window to gable. Interior: lower floor (entered from
east side): wood and iron wheel in situ, of pitchback or overshot type.
Ground floor (entered from west side): to far left (north) a domestic room
with tooled stone surround to fireplace composed of single stone blocks
supporting lintel.

Listing NGR: SE2413969203

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553602

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)