Description

HARDWICK WITH YELFORD HARDWICK
SP3706
19/192 The Mill
12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Hardwick
Mill Farmhouse)

GV II

Mill and millhouse. Millhouse is mid C18 with early C17 rear wing. Limestone,
squared and coursed to front and rest of coursed rubble; rear wing originally
timber-framed. Gabled roof with stone slates to front and concrete tiles to
rear; symmetrical end stacks of stone finished in brick. L-plan with rear right
wing. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Timber lintel over C19
six-panelled door with overlight. Chamfered timber lintels over 6-pane sashes; 2
gabled roof dormers with C19 two-light casements. Rear wing, of 3-window range,
has chamfered timber lintels over C20 casements and bracketed flat hood over C19
plank door. Interior: chamfered bressumer over open fireplace to left.
Butt-purlin roof. Rear wing has large stone lintels over open fireplace;
stop-chamfered and quartered beams and wall plates of original early C17
timber-framed house. Subsidiary features: mill to rear: mid C18 with possible
medieval origins, of coursed limestone rubble with gabled concrete tile roof; of
2 storeys, with C20 loft door, timber lintel over C20 plank door to rear, early
C19 brick infill to central bay and simple C14/C15 pointed chamfered stone
doorway to front. Interior: 3-bay butt-purlin roof (purlins removed); some
machinery and two C18 grain hoppers set on barrels with turned balusters to
rear.
(Bodleian Library, M.S. Top, Oxon, d.271, f.32, for drawing of 1838).

Listing NGR: SP3789506077

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649714

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]