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© Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
IoE Number:
212850
Location:
HIGH TOWNCORN MILL,
DUNHAM MASSEY, TRAFFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
Date Photographed:
05 September 1999
Date listed:
12 July 1985
Date of last amendment:
12 July 1985
Grade
II*
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SJ 78 NW DUNHAM MASSEY DUNHAM PARK
6/91 Sawmill
(formerly listed
as High Towncorn Mill)
5.3.59
G.V. II*
Watermill, originally a cornmill then a sawmill. Possibly
1616 for "old" Sir George Booth, but definitely pre 1697.
English garden wall bond brickwork with stone dressings and
graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys plus attic. Stone
plinth, stone quoins and coped gables with kneelers. South
elevation has a semi-circular stone arched waterwheel
housing flanked on either side by stone buttresses; 3 2-
light and 3 3-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows
(some later) with leaded casements and 2 gables (although
the main roof runs longitudinally). Each end elevation has
an oeil-de-boeuf within the gable which was added in 1756
when some other alterations were made. The north side has a
small projecting wing with stone dressed oeil-de-boeuf and a
shaped brick chimney shaft to the carpenter's shop. Door
openings occur in each elevation. The other window openings
appear to be of a later date. Each storey is divided into 2
rooms by a half-timbered partition. On the ground floor is
the overshot waterwheel (reconstructed) in one room and a
lathe in the other. On the first floor (which because of
the crossfall has access at ground level) is the carpenter's
shop in one room and frame saw, wood-boring machine and
circular saw in the other. The attic is reached by a
central flight of steps and formerly housed the granary. A
rare and well preserved example of a C17 watermill which was
restored and much of the machinery re-constructed in c.1980,
resulting in a fine working example.