Description

The following building shall be included:

HORTON C.P. DEVIL'S LANE
SJ 95 NE
9/70A Harracles Mill

II

Corn mill, water powered. Late C18, and C19. Coursed rubble with ashlar
dressings. Plain tile roof, and quoins. West front has slightly off-centre
doorway reached up a flight of 8 stone steps. To the right a glazing bar
casement,and to the left a tiny casement with beyond a basement stable, plank
door. Above this door a 2 light glazing bar casement, and another similar
window above again. South gable wall has a plank door to the left and a small
glazing bar window to the right, above, in the gable another glazing bar
window. East front has various blocked openings and a through eaves dormer
with glazing bars. The C19 iron water wheel still remains in place though
most of the wooden spokes have rotted away, it is a 16ft by 4ft breast shot wheel
originally with wooden sole-boards and buckets. The interior retains all its
original machinery, including a spur-wheel which is over-driven, and 4 pairs of
stones three of which are driven direct off the spur-wheel and the fourth by 2
lines of counter shaft off the extended teeth of the spur-wheel. There are no
corn-bins on the upper floor, but a slack-chain type of sock hoist driven by a
13 ft wooden shaft off a continuation of the upright shaft. This building was
formerly the mill to the Harracles Hall Estates owned by a branch of the
Wedgewood family.

Listing NGR: SJ9518257454

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26289497

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)