Stowford Mill

ST 85 NW WINGFIELD STOWFORD (south side)

6/281 Stowford Mill

13-11-62

GV II

Water mill. Early C19. Random rubble stone, Welsh slate roof with coped verges. Three-storey, 2-window front facing farmyard; planked door to ground floor and two small 2-light casements to second floor. Rear facing downstream has four 2-light flush mullioned windows to ground floor, three 2-light flush mullioned windows to first floor and three small 2-light casements to second floor, one raking attic dormer with 2-light casement. Right return has 2-light attic casements. Segmental-headed arch below end of mill nearest river, now dry. No machinery said to remain inside. This mill originally used as a fulling mill and converted to use as a corn mill in 1840s. A mill is mentioned here in Domesday and a fulling mill here was leased from Keynsham Abbey during C15 and C16, Thomas Baily bought the property at the Dissolution and Leland recorded the thriving mills at Stowford. The Stillman clothier family of Trowbridge owned the mill in late C18 and let it to the Mullings family who remained here until mid C19. (K. Rogers, Somerset and Wiltshire Woollen Mills, 1976).

Listing NGR: ST8106257638