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© Mr Michael Perry
IoE Number:
265126
Location:
MANOR MILL AND ATTACHED MILL BUILDINGS TO NORTH WEST,
EAST QUANTOXHEAD, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Michael Perry
Date Photographed:
13 October 2005
Date listed:
22 May 1969
Date of last amendment:
22 May 1969
Grade
II
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ST1343 EAST QUANTOXHEAD CP
13/79 Manor Mill and attatched mill
buildings to North West
22.5.69
- II
Mill and Millhouse. Dated 1725. Mill house lias random rubble, rough cast returns and rear, thatched roof with ridge
tiles, half hipped wing at rear, brick stacks left and right gable ends. "L"-plan, single storey brick addition in
angle. One and a half storeys, 3 bays all windows wooden early C20, 2 eyebrow dormers with 3-light casement windows
left, one 3-light right set just below eaves, ground floor 2- and 3-light with entrance end bay left. Depressed arch
door, steeply chamfered architrave with pegged shoulders, plank doors with ledged surround. Left return blocked opening
in gabled end perhaps lighting stair originally, date stone. Interior not viewed. Mill attatched at North West corner;
lias random rubble, gabled slate roof 2 and a half storeys, unglazed opening gable end, similar below, ground floor
opening to left of stable-type door. Overshot wooden water wheel, almost completely disintegrated, but some flour
milling machinery survives. Recessed door in return angle links mill building to mill house. Rebuilt in 1725 after a
fire, this was a flour mill until the 1920's. (VCH Somerset, Vol 5 forthcoming; photograph in NMR).