Listed Building record TR 04 NW 137 - MILL HOUSE MILL

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0446 0546 WYE BRIDGE STREET (south side)
8/195 Mill House mill 27.11.57 and mill race 13.10.52 GV II
Mill, mill house and mill race. Mid C18. Red brick house, timber framed mill, weatherboarded, and stone and red brick mill race. Plain tiled roof. House. Two storeys on plinth with plat band and moulded modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with stacks to rear centre right and projecting at end left. Regular fenestration of 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes with gauged heads on each floor, with central glazing bar sash on 1st floor, and central door of 6 raised and fielded panels on ground floor with traceried rectangular fanlight and doorcase with Ionic pilasters, enriched frieze and modillioned pediment. Boarded door to end right. Mill building to right, 3 storeys, ground floor of painted brick, weather boarded over, with hipped tiled roof. One wooden casement on each floor, with boarded doors to centre left on ground and 1st floors. Attached to right the mill race, with masonry walls, some 50 yards long, with a hatch and walkway, and a second hatch beyond controlling the flow of the main stream, both with wood and iron gates and railed walkways.
Listing NGR: TR0487846884

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Description from record TR 04 NW 51:
Water Mill at Wye, E. bank of river Stour between village centre and railway station. Multi-phase building.1st Medieval open-hall house,C15. 2nd two storey extension to N. of hall. Its date is post medieval,C17.The 3rd phase is an early C18 timber-framed ancillary barn-like building. A large Geogian house built around the building in C18. 5th phase, a C19 storey Mill was built against the earlier ancillary building. Also around the same time a new extension was built, a single storey, poss. A kitchen. (2)

In 2018, a watching brief was carried out a the site during the creation of a kitchen. This identified elements of the water mill machinery including the wheel pit, foundation walls, and the socket for a watershaft which were recorded and preserved in situ. (4)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Untitled Source, Austin,R.(1994) Wye Water Mill, CAT. (Unpublished document). SKE6451.

<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, Wye Water Mill (Unpublished document). SKE16297.

<4> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2018, Archaeological Watching Brief on works at Wye Mill House, Bridge Street, Wye, Ashford, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE58023.