Stockwith Mill

Heritage listing

Details A water-powered corn mill with wheel and attached dwelling, all of around 1800. MATERIALS: walls are red brick, and the roof is new clay pantile. Doors and windows are as mix of timber and uPVC. The water wheel has an iron centre and rim with timber spokes. PLAN: the mill and attached dwelling are in a rectangular main block which faces south-east and is orientated south-west / north-east. It is around 20.4 metres long and 6 metres deep. The mill is at the south-west end of the block and the house, attached to the mill by a narrow linking bay, is to the north-east. A wing extends north-west to the rear of the house forming an ‘L’ shaped plan. There is a single storey lean-to extension to the rear of the north-west wing, and a second single storey lean-to extension on the rear elevation of the house, south-west of the north-west wing. The water wheel sits in a brick housing directly in the River Lymn which runs immediately south-west of the mill. The river flow is managed via a sluice to the west of the wheel. Just downstream of the wheel, the river passes under a footbridge and then widens to a pool in the south. EXTERIOR: the mill and mill house are connected by a narrow linking bay. The buildings are two storeys under a C21 pitched clay pantile roof, with gable ends to the north-east, south-west and to the north-west rear wing. The ridge height of the mill’s roof is slightly higher than that of the roof covering the house and link. Walls are red brick in English Garden Wall Bond, with brick segmental arches over doors and windows. Windows are a mix of timber and uPVC casements with some from the mid-C20 and others more modern. The mill house has brick chimney stacks in its three gable end walls, though the south-western stack is enclosed by the linking bay. Th

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.