The Old Mill

Heritage listing

Details Former water-powered mill, dated 1755, restored and converted to a dwelling in 1973-6. MATERIALS: constructed of red brick with vitrified headers used for decorative effect. The roof is covered with clay pantiles. PLAN: the building is linear in form, aligned parallel to the mill race. EXTERIOR: of two storeys with attics and of three bays, with a lower single-bay range at the east end, of single-storey and attic form. Below the ground floor to the house is a basement area, formerly enclosed within a lean-to wheelhouse, in which the main drive from the mill's water wheel was located. The west gable faces Bridge Street and has a central double doorway with three-panel doors and a flat, rubbed brick, arched head with a painted keystone. There are wide storey bands to the first and attic floor levels, and two first-floor windows below flat, rubbed brick heads with keystones. The window frames are two-light, horizontal glazing-bar sashes. Within the gable apex is a large keyed oculus. Above the doorway is a rectangular plaque which reads 'Francis Julien, Engineer 1755' A smaller plaque to the right of the doorway reads 'Reconstructed 1973-76 by Louth Civic Trust Ltd. for the people of Louth. Architects :-Wm Saunders and Partners.' The north elevation is of three bays, with six-over-six pane, vertical sash windows to the ground floor, and two-light horizontal, glazing-bar sashes to the upper floor. There is a wide storey band above the ground-floor windows. The south elevation has three, two-light horizontal sashes to the upper floor below a modillioned eaves. Below cill level is a storey band. The lower floor has three, tall, six- over-six pane sashes. These windows do not appear on the depiction of the mill in William Brown's ' Panorama' of c.1853, being located in

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.