Churston Mill House

BRIXHAM

SX9055 BRIXHAM ROAD, Churston Ferrers 1946-1/6/42 (South side) 10/01/75 Churston Mill House

II

Shown on OS map as Churston Mill Farm. Mill and mill house. Probably early C19, extended mid C19. Coursed stone rubble. Slated roofs; mill house hipped to right. Mill hipped both ends. Late C20 red-brick chimney on left end wall of house. Stone rubble chimney on rear wall with a rendered shaft on top. Mill house has 2-room plan with stair hall in centre; at right-hand end a further room of a slightly different build. Behind the latter and slightly overlapping the main house is the roughly square mill building. House is 2-storeyed. 3-window front with slightly recessed 2-window section to right. All openings have flat arches with well-cut stone voussoirs. Centre front door of house has hoodmould composed of a square slab of stone on 2 plain stone corbels; old door with 6 flush panels. Windows have late C20 small-paned wood casements throughout. Mill building is 3-storeyed with door in left side wall and another in right side wall at second-storey level. Rear wall has 1 window opening in each of second and third storeys and a small ground-storey opening for the shaft of the former water-wheel. Openings have arches with voussoirs similar to those in the house. INTERIORS: house has been altered, but retains C19 panelled doors and cupboards. Wooden dogleg stair with thin square balusters and column-newels. Mill retains machinery on ground and second storeys, including gear-wheels with wooden cogs. 2 pairs of grindstones still in position.

Listing NGR: SX9083555502