Description

SE 20 SE CAWTHORNE BARK HOUSE LANE (West side)

3/2 Jowett Saw Mill

18.3.68

II

House, formerly corn mill and later a saw mill. Early to mid C19, the wheel installed in 1854, the main part of the building being added in 1858. C20 restoration. Coursed squared stone, pitch-faced to 1858 range which is rendered at rear and has a brick rear wing. Stone slate roof. Two-storey early block, the rest single storey with attic and dormers. L-shaped 1858 range with the early block breaking forward at the right end. The early block: the front has 2 bays of 2-light gothic arched windows. Ornamental ashlar stack to right end. Round-arched opening at rear into wheel house. Left gable has a large, low-level doorway with lintel supported on corbels, with a first floor doorway above.

The 1858 range in Tudor style has rock-faced quoins to corners, bay divisions and window and door openings. The main range is of 6 bays, numbers 3 and 5 being plain. Nos 2, 4 and 6 are set back slightly. 2-light windows with round-arched lights to bays 1 and 4. Round-arched door openings to bays 2 and 6, the former now glazed. Excellent square, twisted stacks, with tripled flues to left, and a single flue to centre. Left return gable has 2 bays of 2-light windows, as front, and a tablet reading in raised letters:

"AD MDCCCLVI"

The rear is in a different style with 3 large round-arched openings (now part blocked) above each of which is a later dormer. The similarly treated wing (without dormers) projects at left side.

Interior of early block: Inside the left end of the building is the wheel house with a breast shot wheel approximately 4 metres in diameter and 2 metres wide with cast-iron sides and wooden paddles.

Listing NGR: SE2730207833

External Links

• Wikidata Q26444776

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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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)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)