Millend Mill

EASTINGTON MILLEND SO 7805 13/65 Millend Mill GV II Mill, unused at time of survey (November 1985). Mill site since C14, this building rebuilt by Henry Hicks at some point between late 1790s and 1820. Coursed and dressed stone with corner pyramidal finials on north gable end, roof mainly tile, partially slate, stone end stacks. Large brick addition with slate roof on west side of late C19, later concrete addition of C20 on east side not of special interest. Main block of 4 storeys and attic, single range with brick addition forming L-shape to front, and with long single storey brick shed to rear. Seven windows, 2-light stone mullions, all blocked. North gable end has former haulingways, blocked round-headed opening to top, double doors in cambered head opening below, and long blocked opening below. Door on ground floor to right. South gable end has 5 tiers of two 2-light, all similarly blocked or bricked up. Brick section has round or cambered head lights to upper floors, all bricked up, and curved south west corner corbelled out on stone. Interior not accessible, but may be of interest. This is the only mill of 3 on the River Frome in Eastington parish rebuilt by the clothier Henry Hicks in the early C19, remaining in anything like its original form. The mills were subsequently run by the Hooper family up to the end of the C19; Meadow Mill has been much altered, Churchend Mill demolished. Millend Mill was a corn mill in 1939, empty by 1968, and is said to have had 4 water wheels in the late C19. (VCH, Gloucestershire, Vol X, 1972)

Listing NGR: SO7811905370