Mill Barn Approximately 50 Yards South West Of The Old Schoolhouse

SJ 91 NW ACTON TRUSSELL, BEDNALL ACTON TRUSSELL AND TEDDESLEY HAY C.P.

3/10 Mill barn approximately - 50 yards south-west of The Old Schoolhouse

GV II

Mill barn. c1868. Red brick with blue brick dressings; plain tile roof. Aligned north-west/south-east with steam engine house projecting to the north-east. North-east front: Mainly one storey with loft to the right; roughly 4 bays, 4 tiers of cruciform air vents to the left, tall double doors with segmental pointed arch to left of centre, gabled steam engine projection with tall chimney stack to right of centre, door and ground-and first-floor windows to the right all with segmental pointed heads. South-west front: Tall double doors to right of centre with segmental pointed arch, 4 tiers of cruciform air vents to left of centre and to right, the latter partly obscured by a gabled extension; loft window to left with segmental pointed head and latticed frame, right hand bay partly obscured by a projecting range of loose boxes (not included). Included as a complete example of a formerly steam driven mill barn of which few examples remain in western lowland Staffordshire. J.E.C. Peters. The Development of Farm Buildings in Western Lowland Staffordshire up to 1880 (1969) Manchester University Press. P. 85 and 91.

Listing NGR: SJ9364617793