Grain Store At Sawbridgeworth

This is an 18th-century grain store, originally part of Sawbridgeworth Mill. It was previously listed under a different address and name (Mill buildings on Station Road). The building is constructed of white weatherboarding over a brick base, with a gabled roof covered in old red tiles. Timber framing is evident. There are two 19th-century single-story rear wings, weatherboarded and roofed with slate. A large two-hoist lucam (a dormer with a lifting roof) projecting from the north side is weatherboarded with a slate roof and supported by two long, curved braces. The easternmost bay has unpainted boarding and a raised floor level. The next two bays have two stories with a loft above, served by the lucam. These bays contain a 19th-century casement window on the first floor, next to a three-light fixed window of the same size. Ground floor windows are a small and a larger paneled casement. A narrow, half-glazed door, with a simple surround and flat, molded canopy on bracket supports, is located on the left side of the building. The western part of the building is a high story with a loft in the roofspace. A small, enclosed, half-glazed porch with a tiled roof features a flush-paneled, half-glazed door. To the east of the porch is a three-light casement window with small lights above a transom, with diagonal corners on the outer panes. To the west of the porch is a continuous band of glazing, two panes high. The west gable end has a formal appearance facing the approach road, featuring a large flush sash window with a molded architrave and 8/8 panes. A small three-light wood casement window is above the sash window, in the loft. A circular dial is set into the gable's point, with a single pointer. A wooden bell turret, with a lead-covered base, slated sides and roof gabled to the west with molded bargeboard and pierced spandrel, surmounts the gable. A wind vane, with a rotating arrow above the letters N, E, S, and W, sits atop the turret. The bell stock remains, but the bell was removed in 1971. The west face of the nearer rear wing has weatherboarding and a 19th-century flush sash window with a plain architrave and 2/2 panes. The interior of the western part is fitted as an office, with early 19th-century molded door architraves and a fire surround with moldings and corner stops with roundels. The building is a picturesque example beside a bridge over the mill stream and is the only surviving weatherboarded building of the mill, which was destroyed by fire around 1978. Brick maltings survive, now much altered and in domestic use. The listing refers to what Pevsner described as Burton's Mill.