Listed Building: FURNACE MILL, WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS (1336941)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1355, 8, 159
Date assigned 10 October 1989
Date last amended

Description

LAMBERHURST FURNACE LANE TQ 6636-6736 (north side) 8/159 Furnace Mill, walls and outbuildings attached GV II Mill, wall and outbuildings. C18, extended early C19. Timber framed and weather boarded with red brick on ground floor and with plain tiled roof, and extended with red brick. Two storey and garret mill building with half-hipped gambrel roof. Two 3 light wooden casements on first floor and central boarded loft door and 3 light casement to left on ground floor and 2 doubled cart doors to centre and to right. Lean-to outshot to right. Projecting from low in the left return side is the wheel axle, now in a dry wheel pit. The internal flooring and fittings for machinery survive, as do some elements of the machinery itself. Attached to right a single storey stable block with 3 strap hinged half-doors, and beyond that a red brick wall, about 6 feet in height and extending some 30 metres with a gateway, and linking to a red brick and tiled outhouse to the north of the main house. The site is one of great historical and archaeological importance, the Gloucester Furnace, the largest iron working furnace and mill in the Weald C17/C18 was located here; there are also earthwork remains in the vicinity and extending down the valley to Peppermills. Listing NGR: TQ6614536131

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6613 3615 (point)
Map sheet TQ63NE
Civil Parish LAMBERHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM