Description

NORTH WRAXALL FORD
ST 87 SW
4/428 Duncombe Mill Cottages

II

Pair of cottages with south end outhouse, later C18, rubble stone
with ashlar dressings and stone tiled roofs. 2 storeys and attic
to main range, one and a half storeys to south end. 2 hipped
dormers to main range, 2 hipped eaves dormers to lower south end
range. Cluster of 4 octagonal stone stacks to main range ridge.
Raised ashlar quoins and first floor dripcourse. Main range has 4
first floor 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows and ground
floor 2 plank doors with hoods on brackets either side of two 2-
light mullion windows, and a single light to right. All windows
with early C19 cast-iron lattice lights. Dove openings to end
gable. South end range has interrupted dripcourse and door in
chamfered surround to left. Rear of main range has two 2-light
ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Possibly part of
the "six newly-built tenements" recorded at the mill in 1778. (K.
Rogers: Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills 1976, 174.)

Listing NGR: ST8385374819

Selected Sources

• Rogers, K H , Somerset and Wiltshire Woollen Mills, (1976), 174

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