Listed Building record TR 04 NW 137 - MILL HOUSE MILL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1733 to 1766 Summary from record TR 04 NW 51: A house and water mill are located on the east bank of the River Stour between Wye village centre and the railway station. The multi-phase building was originally a 15th century medieval open hall house. There were later additions to this structure in the 17th and 18th century and a large Geogian house was built around the building in the 18th century. The mill was built against the earlier ancillary building in the 19th century and is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of c.1861. It is also depicted on the 4th edition map of c.1931-40 indicating it was still in use at this time.

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Grid reference TR 04877 46883 (point)
Map sheet TR04NW
County KENT
District ASHFORD, KENT
Civil Parish WYE WITH HINXHILL, ASHFORD, KENT

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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)


Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, Wye Water Mill (Unpublished document).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

<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.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1994. Wye Water Mill.
  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  • <2> Unpublished document: Austin,R.(1994) Wye Water Mill, CAT..

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Historic building survey of Wye Water Mill (EKE10591)

Record last edited

Oct 26 2010 1:30PM