Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW MILLER'S GREEN
844-1/8/204 (West side)
23/01/52 No.2
The Old Mill House

GV II

House. The west wing built as a house c1700. Probably
incorporates some of the structure of the water mill of the
former Abbey of St Peter which remained on the site until C17;
the north wing built as a separate dwelling between 1716 and
1727; in late C18 the wings linked to form a single house;
late C18 alterations. Brick, end-gabled slate roof, a brick
gable-end stack. Double-depth block west wing to left and
north wing set back to right.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, cellar and attic; on the front of
both wings is a moulded eaves cornice; on the ground floor the
entrance doorway in south front of north wing adjacent to west
wing, framed by timber jamb linings, architrave and hood
supported on a pair of carved timber consoles; to right of
doorway in north wing a tripartite timber-framed window, and
to left in west wing a similar window with external shutters,
in both windows sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes in the
centre, 1x4 in the sides), in openings with slightly cambered
brick arches and projecting stone sills; on each of the upper
floors of the north wing a sash, and on each of the upper
floors of the west wing two sashes, all with glazing bars (3x4
panes) in openings with rubbed brick segmental-arched heads
and projecting stone sills.
In the rear elevation of the north wing a late C18 tall
semicircular-arched sash with glazing bars (3x10 panes)
lighting the stairwell; to right in north gable-end wall of
west range on the first floor a sash similar to the sashes on
front, on the second floor a two-light casement and in the
gable a two-light casement, both casements with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but late C18 staircase in the north
wing reputed to have stick balusters and swept handrail; the
cellar reputed to contain a well and a millstone from the
former mill.
(BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of
Dean: London: 1976-: 243; Eward S: No Fine but a Glass of
Wine, Cathedral Life at Gloucester: Salisbury: 1985-: 3O6).

Listing NGR: SO8305118888

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561633

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Recommended Books

• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey