Chalkney Mill

TL 8628-8728 EARLS COLNE COLCHESTER ROAD (south side)

9/49 Chalkney Mill 27.10.75

GV II

Watermill, under conversion to a dwelling at time of survey, April 1986. Early C18, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed and weatherboarded with some red brick, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing E, of 2 storeys and attic. C19 rear extension, of 2 storeys, with lean-to roof of slate, and external stack at right side. C20 single-storey extension at right end, with lean-to roof of slate. 4-window range of C20 wooden casements, C19 cast iron casement of 20 lights in gabled dormer. 2 temporary doors on ground floor, plain boarded door on first floor. One CL9 cast iron casement with Gothic Revival tracery in each gable. The interior retains the wheel pit with an iron shaft by Whitmore and Binyon of Wickham Market, the wallower and wooden spur wheel. Built as a fulling mill it was converted for corn milling in the C19, with 2 1/2 storey extension at the right end and an engine house and tall chimney to the rear, demolished since 1974. Last used for milling in the 1930s, (H. Benham, Some Essex Water Mills, 1976, 78).

Listing NGR: TL8752628386