Description

TQ 09 NE RICKMANSWORTH LOUDWATER LANE
(West side)
Rickmansworth

6/185 Old Mill House

II

House, formerly part of paper mill. Late C17 or early C18 origins,
extended and altered in C19 and C20. Timber frame, rendered. Sham timber
frame applied. Slate roofs. 4 bays. 2 storeys. Ground floor entrance
with a C20 hood. C20 2 light casements. Modillioned boxed eaves. C19
range to left is former wheelhouse with the River Chess running beneath
it, forward projecting with a coped parapet to a gable with kneelers. A
cross axial ridge stack to right of centre and end stacks, that on right
return extruded. Entrance on right return with a C20 hood. To rear 3
gables, central projecting oriel, ground floor projecting bay to right.
Interior: exposed timber frame. Built as part of a corn mill which was
converted to paper production by J. Shipton c.1750, owned by H. Ingram
of the 'Illustrated London News' from 1846 to 1858 and closed 1885.
(G. Cornwall 'Paper Making in Rickmansworth', Rickmansworth Historian,
No.38, 1981).

Listing NGR: TQ0532996157

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631630

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)