Donhead Mill

DONHEAD ST. ANDREW TISBURY ROAD ST 92 NW (east side)

4/18 Donhead Mill

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Lower Mill. Water mill and house, now house and workshops. Mid C18, altered C19 and C20. Dressed limestone, tiled roofs, mill roof is half-hipped , gable end brick stacks. L-plan, house has integral outshut. Two-storey, 2- windowed; casements. C20 glazed door to centre, 2-light C20 casement either side, first floor has 2-light casements in moulded stone architraves, coped verge to left. Right return has light timber-framing with brick nogging to gable with large 2-light casement. Attached to left is 2-storey extension, probably C19, with 2-light casements and Welsh slate roof. Rear of house has C20 door with C20 casements to ground and first floors: first floor created by raised eaves of outshut. Mill attached to right of house has 2-light casements, ledged door and 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement, mill race passes below two segmental stone arches, partly replaced by straight stone lintel, right return has 2-light casement to weatherboarded gable, stone buttress to wall below, attached to rear of mill is range of workshops with garage door and casements, half-hipped tiled roof. Interior of house has chamfered beams, open fireplace with chamfered lintel on chamfered stone jambs in outshut, original 3- bay roof with two tiers of butt purlins and collars. Mill retains part of cast-iron water wheel with lettering: E.S. Hindley of Bourton, Dorset, 1887, one millstone retained in situ on ground floor, now sitting room.

Listing NGR: ST9181825514