Avon Weir

CHRISTIAN MALFORD AVON WEIR LANE ST 97 NE 5/122 Avon Weir II Former mill-house, early C19, red brick and ashlar dressings with two-stage slate and stone tiled roof, coped gables and end stacks. Two storeys and attic, 3 window range. Flush quoins and window surrounds, three first floor 12-pane sashes, ground floor tripartite sashes, each side of door in plain stone surround. Tripartite sashes have casements replacing centre sash. Timber gabled porch. Roof has continuous rendered attic with casement pair each side, stone slates below, slates above. Single storey additions each end, red brick to left, rendered to right. Rubble stone rear wall with first floor casement pair each side of loading door, now glazed. Marked as Christian Malford Mill on Andrews and Drury 1773 map. A 6-storey cloth mill was built c1800 and worked to c1850, demolished before 1885. (K. Rogers, Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills 1976 75)

Listing NGR: ST9552779215