Sheene Mill is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A C17 Water mill, restaurant.
Sheene Mill
- WRENN ID
- ruined-chamber-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Water mill, restaurant
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 3844 24/209
MELBOURN STATION ROAD (South west side) Sheene Mill (No. 39)
GV II
Water mill, now a restaurant. Late C17, extended C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded, and underbuilt in brick, now painted, in 1833 (dated brick in rear wall). Half hipped, tiled roof with inserted stacks. Three bay plan with narrower bay for the undershot wheel, now removed. Two storeys and attic. Mid C20 dormers to rear wall. Small pane mid-C20 casements to front and ground storeys and door of similar period in round headed arch. Inside:: side purlin roof with timbers of substantial scantling to principals. Some inserted ceiling timbers e.g. at ground floor in the hall, but the main posts are original and have jowled heads. A watermill is recorded here in Domesday Book. It is associated with Sheene Manor, Meldreth (q.v.), nearby which was given to the Carthusian monastery at Sheen, Surrey in early C15. At the Dissolution it passed to Sir Robert Chester of Royston.
Dr. W.M. Palmer: Sheene Manor, Meldreth (Cambs. & Hunts. Arch. Soc. 1922) Dr. D. Mills: Early History of Meldreth
Listing NGR: TL3801644907
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