Description

SX 86 NE KINGKERSWELL CHURCH END ROAD
3/191 Whitpot Mill
- II
Water mill. Probably early C19 with later C19 alterations. Local limestone
rubble, rendered. Scantle slate roof with gabled ends. Square on plan
with wheel and pit on north side and entrance at lower ground level on
east side.
Three storeys. East front has C19 boarded door on left and fixed 3-light
window to left with overlapping panes of glass. On the south side a loading
door on first floor and a small second floor window in the gable. Also
on the south side there is a single storey shed with a cast entrance in
the gable end. On the north side a cast-iron overshot waterwheel, its
baskets removed. The north elevation has 2 single-light windows on the
second floor and 2 2-light casements on the first floor, all with glazing
bars.
Interior: the Ground floor has some of the heavy wooden frame for the
machinery with iron gearing but the rest of the machinery has been removed.
The second storey has the complete set of wooden boarded grain bins and
a wooden sash hoist and tackle. The composite millstones are lying nearby
outside.
The mill was held by William Bennett in 1566. In 1756 Judith Gelsius left
it to Susanna Bealy of Abbotsberswell. Whites Directory of 1878 gives
William Lee as the miller. the mill was closed in about 1919. Information
provided by the present owner.

Listing NGR: SX8753568070

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603806

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]