Town Mill

SU 99 49SE GUILDFORD MILLBROOK (West Side)

Town Mill 8/142 (Formerly listed 1/5/53 as Water Mill)

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Watermill, now scenery workshops and theatre. Eastern range (nearest road) c.1771, western range, c.1852. Brown brick to east, red brick to west with plain tiled half-hipped roof with tile hung gable end to west, some in diamond pattern. Three main floors with two attic floors in gable ends. Brick plat bands over ground, first and second floors, brick dentils to eaves. Five bays to east range facing south with two-light, cambered-head casement windows in gauged-brick surrounds. Five windows on the second floor, four windows on the first and four on the ground floors, two windows to right now blocked. Central double doors under cambered heads with further panelled doors above to centre of the first floor. Two bay extension to left (west) with 3-light,larger casement fenestration under cambered heads. Two windows on each of the first and second floors; one window to ground floor left and with double doors to right. West end - Central boarded section on main gable with two casement windows. Three windows on the first and second floors. Double,gabled single-storey range to ground floor with further extensions to right end over mill race. North (rear) - regular fenestration with basement storey battering out into water. This building is a reconstruction of an earlier mill which stood on the same site, during the course of the rebuilding the mill wheels were converted from undershot to breastshot. The western range was originally repaired and was known as the Hogsmeal Mill before its eventual reconstruction in c.1852. The date plaque, 1896, refers to the installation of new water pumps by the Guildford Corporation when the mill was converted into a waterworks.

"GUILDFORD AS IT WAS": MATTHEW ALEXANDER (1978) BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.288.

Listing NGR: SU9959649263