Listed Building: SHIRBURN MILL (1254184)

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Grade II
Authority English Heritage
Volume/Map/Item 1252, 2, 115
Date assigned 17 November 1966
Date last amended

Description

LAWFORD MILL HILL TM 03 SE 2/115 Shirburn Mill, (sometimes called Sherbourne Mill and 17.11.66 attached dam wall to south) GV II Former water mill, now empty. C18/C19. Timber framed and weatherboarded, red brick ground floor. Red plain tile roof. 3 storeys and loft with lucam to north face, outshot lean-to to south. North face. Central lucam on curved brackets, window to north. 3 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes, moulded surrounds, those to ground floor with segmental heads, central door to first floor, central panelled door to ground floor within segmental head, small vertically boarded door to right. The south lean-to faces the mill pond and the exterior overshot wheel, removed 1930's, was to the east face. Of 5 bays with hanging knees to tie beams. 2 pairs of stones remain in the mill, one by H & C Collins, Milton and the other by Tinsby, Ipswich and 2 stone nuts. The dam wall curves to enclose the mill pond to the south and is of concrete faced brick. The mill stream passed under a bridge to the west of the Mill (not now visible) to drive the waterwheel. Once a partner to a long demolished upper mill formerly situated across the mill pond. J. Booker. Batsford Guide to Industrial Archaeology 1980., Listing NGR: TM0782031738

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Civil Parish LAWFORD, TENDRING, ESSEX

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Dec 21 2023 2:57PM

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