Listed Building record TQ 73 SE 84 - SLIP MILL HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 7553 3135 (point)
Map sheet TQ73SE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HAWKHURST SLIP MILL ROAD TQ 73 SE (east side)
10/433 Slip Mill House 20.6.67 GV II Mill and mill house. C18. Timber framed and weather-boarded on painted brick ground floor. Plain tiled roofs. Two storey house with hipped roof with stacks to left and to right. Two tripartite glazing bar sashes (late C20) on first floor, and bays to left and to right on ground floor, with central boarded door in moulded pilastered surrounds. Hipped ranges to rear. Projecting at left the former mill building, of 2 storeys and attic, with 2 gabled dormers, 2 glazing bar sashes on first floor with half-doors to centre with rectangular fanlight and ground floor with segmentally-headed casements, with half doors to centre, with glazed inner opening. Gabled rear range. Remains of decahedral wheel, and wheel-pit only machinery remains (see Fuller and Spain, Watermitts, Kent and the Borders of Sussex). The mill was run from at least late C16 to C19 by the Ayerst family, also connected with Holmans and Primrose Hill nearby.
Listing NGR: TQ7553331345


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

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM