Listed Building record TQ 65 NE 223 - WEIR MILL, East Malling

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1920.

Location

Grid reference TQ 69698 57201 (point)
Map sheet TQ65NE
County KENT
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish EAST MALLING AND LARKFIELD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST MALLING & LARKFIELD MILL STREET TQ 65 NE (south side) 7/169 15.11.73 Weir Mill
- II
Paper Mill. C18 and circa 1900. Built in two parts, the earlier to the rear. REAR PORTION: Ground floor of red brick with grey headers, 2 upper floors weather-boarded. Left side 2 glazing bar sash elevation with 2 industrial doors below. Right side, upper storey only weather-boarded. 4 glazing bar sash elevation. South end gabled with 1 glazing bar sash window. Mill wheel. Interior carried on square wooden supports. FRONT PORTION: Red brick with slate roof. 4 pilasters through all floors. 2 metal-framed cambered windows with cambered brick heads. Tall central weather-boarded lucarne with 2 round windows and curved wooden bargeboards. 3 industrial doors. Weather-boarded belvedere on roof. Left side with 8 windows and similar weather-boarded lucarne. 3-storey matching extension attached to right side. Sources: Michael T Fullan, The Watermills of the East Malling and Wateringbury Streams, Maidstone, 1980.
Listing NGR: TQ6969857201

Millsacrchive.org claim it was a Flour Mill with the original weatherboarded building being built in 1817 and the adjoining steam mill constructed 1889. The mill functioned until 1929 and was then converted into flats in 1987.


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

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

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Record last edited

Sep 18 2023 11:30AM