Description

LEIGH
ST 60 NW -

5/29 Withyhook
11-7-51 Farm House

II

Detached house, incorporating former watermill at right end. Mid - C16,
altered in C17 and C18. Rubble stone walls. Slate roof, one brick stack at
left end and one right of centre - at end of original house section.
2 storeys. C20 stone porch with lean-to slate roof and C20 ledged door.
Right of this 2 other door openings, one at right end of original house,
with old ledged door and frame - C17, one into former mill, with C20 part-
glazed door - original opening. Also on ground floor, one 4-light timber
window with ovolo-moulded mullions and one casement with horizontal glazing
bars. Some stone-mullioned windows in rear wing. Internally, left ground
floor room has stone fireplace with 4-centred arch. Some chamfered ceiling
beams. Right ground floor room of original house has large open fireplace
with cambered timber lintel and timber jambs. Newel stair adjoins this.
Some chamfered ceiling beams. No mill machinery survives. At right end, a
single-storey extension, of stone with slate roof, now used as garage. (RCHM
Monument 17. (Dorset, Vol.I). R Machin. "The Houses of Yetminster."
University of Bristol. 1978.)

Listing NGR: ST6094006602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26591201

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)