Listed Building: HANNOVER MILL, OUTBUILDINGS AND MILL (1233522)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1414, 6, 114 |
Date assigned | 16 February 1989 |
Date last amended |
Description
TR 03 NW MERSHAM THE FORSTAL (east side)
6/114 Hannover Mill, outbuildings and mill
GV II
Mill and mill house. C18 or earlier core, remodelled and greatly extended 1879. Milling machinery by Holmans of Canterbury. Red brick with some tile hung framing. Plain tiled roof. Half-courtyard plan. Main range: 2 storeys and attic, the house section to left with bracketed eaves to return hipped roof with stack at end left, margin light sash and (blank) name plaque on 1st floor, margin light sash with door of 6 panels and rectangular fanlight on ground floor, both with cornices on brackets. Mill building to right, with 2 hipped dormers, 2 segmentally headed casements on each floor with boarded doors between (on both floors). Three storey block to right, with half-hipped roof and central stack with 1 wooden casement on each floor and open passage- way doorway to ground floor. Projecting range to right: 2 storey framed range, tile over brick, with wooden casement on 1st floor and boarded loft door, 3 boarded and half-glazed doors and mullion and transomed shop window on ground floor. Three storey end block, with returned half-hipped roof. Two wooden casements on second floor, 1 each on 1st and ground floors, with boarded 1st floor door to left, half-glazed door on ground floor. Rear elevation with tile hung upper storeys to main mill building. Small single storey brick out- house with wooden casement. Brick on ragstone sluice and race walls (the whole mill complex is built on ragstone reinforced walls to stream side) extending some 20 metres upstream. Iron sluice gates with passage over. The wheel is a 12 foot diameter breast-shot wheel with 56 buckets driving 3 sets of stones originally, now only 2. The whole wheel and machinery is enclosed within the mill building.
Listing NGR: TR0496439092
External Links (0)
Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 0495 3909 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR03NW |
Civil Parish | MERSHAM, ASHFORD, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 17 2006 9:59AM