Priory Mill

ARLINGTON MILTON HIDE TQ 50 NE

18/502D The Mill to the south west of Michelham Priory GV II

the entry shall be amended to read;

TQ 50 NE ARLINGTON MILTON HIDE

18/502D Priory Mill

GV II

Water mill. Mid C16 3 bay timber-framed building refronted c1800. Exterior red brick with grey headers in English bond to ground floor, first floor weatherboarded, including gable end to east. Tiled roof, hipped to west. Two storeys; two windows. First floor has pivoting sashes, ground floor has fixed sashes. Central first floor plank door approached by wooden steps. Underneath is a c1800 fixed casement. Rear elevation has 2 openings with pintle hinges. Wooden water-wheel installed in 1972 during restoration of the mill, the former iron water-wheel of 1896 having been removed in 1924/5. Interior has roof of side purlin and wind-braced construction with raking queen strut and collar beam. Jowled posts and curved windbraces. The sack hoist mechanism is the only early feature to survive. The earliest record of a water mill at Michelham Priory was in 1434. This building appears on an estate map of 1667. [ROHAS Report no 1057 by David and Barbara Martin. Michelham Priory Water Mill leaflet.]

ARLINGTON MILTON HIDE 1. 5208 The Mill to the south west of Michelham Priory TQ 50 NE 18/502D

II

1. C18. Two storeys. Two windows. Ground floor. Red brick, above weather-boarding. Hipped tiled roof. Probably C17 or earlier, refaced with red brick and grey headers alternately in 1714. Hipped tiled roof. Some casement windows, some sash windows with glazing bars intact. Two-storeyed gabled porch with a stone in the gable inscribed with the initials M.G.A. and the date 1714. Brick chimney breast on north wall.

Listing NGR: TQ5573609308