Description

COLN ST ALDWYNS MAIN STREET
SP 10 SW
6/158

(west side)
The Mill (previously listed as
Corn Mill and Cottages abutting
occupied by Mrs E.K Smith and
A. Martin)
23.1.52
II
Mill and formerly 2 houses, now one house. Mid-late C18 house;
early-mid C19 additions. Mill building dated 'SIR M.E.H.B. BART.
1858'. Random rubble limestone; brick chimneys; stone slate
roofs. Two-storey with attic mill block; angled linking section
to former row of houses at right angles, all 2-storey. West side:
doorway with timber lintel and 2 casements to mill. 1844 dated
addition with segmental arched loft doorway. House projecting to
left has south facing elevation with 2 half gables both having
horizontal sliding sashes; casement and doorway to ground floor
both with timber lintels. South gable to mill: parapet gabled end
with 2-light attic casement; datestone (see above) set over. East
side: 2 doorways to mill, one above other; various timber fixed
lights. Single casement to each floor of linking section to right,
leaded to upper floor, both with timber lintels. House projecting
forward to right has mixed fenestration: 2 tripartite ground floor
sashes; 3 horizontal sliding upper floor sashes. Hipped porch in
angle with linking section to mill.
Interior: mill has set of corn milling machinery complete except
for mill wheel. Rebuilt in C19, for use as corn mill, by Sir
Michael Edward Hicks Beach. Important position at south end of
Main Street.
(A.R.J. Jurica, 'Coln St Aldwyns' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, pp 44-
45)

Listing NGR: SP1458004916

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590020

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)