Description

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SJ 78 NW
6/91

DUNHAM MASSEY
DUNHAM PARK
Sawmill

(formerly listed as High Towncorn Mill)

5.3.59

GV
II*
Watermill, originally a cornmill, converted to a sawmill in mid C19. Possibly 1616 for "old" Sir George Booth, but definitely pre 1697. English garden wall bond brickwork with stone dressings and graduated stone slate roof. Two storeys plus attic. Stone plinth, stone quoins and coped gables with kneelers.

South elevation has a semi-circular stone arched waterwheel housing flanked on either side by stone buttresses; three two-light and three three-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows (some later) with leaded casements and two gables (although the main roof runs longitudinally). Each end elevation has an oeil-de-boeuf within the gable which was added in 1756 when some other alterations were made. The north side has a small projecting wing with stone dressed oeil-de-boeuf and a shaped brick chimney shaft to the carpenter's shop. Door openings occur in each elevation. The other window openings appear to be of a later date. Each storey is divided into two rooms by a half-timbered partition. On the ground floor is the overshot waterwheel (reconstructed) in one room and a lathe in the other. On the first floor (which because of the crossfall has access at ground level) is the carpenter's shop in one room and frame saw, wood-boring machine and circular saw in the other. The attic is reached by a central flight of steps and formerly housed the granary.

A rare and well preserved example of a C17 watermill which was restored and much of the machinery re-constructed in 1980, resulting in a fine working example.

Listing NGR: SJ7345787247

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q40104577

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Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)