Ponsworthy Mill, Including The Garden Wall And Gateposts Fronting The Road

WIDECOMBE-IN- PONSWORTHY SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/241 Ponsworthy Mill, including the 10.3.77 garden wall and gateposts fronting the road GV II

House, formerly a mill and mill house. Probably early C19. Granite rubble, painted at the front. Slated roof. Small rendered chimneystack on left gable. L-shaped plan. House-part, at right-angles to road, has 2-room plan with central passage leading to staircase at the back; mill building at right-angles to it, at the end farthest from the road. 2 storeys. House has symmetrical 3-window front. Windows have granite lintels; low wide windows on ground storey, tall narrow ones above, all having C19 casements with glazing-bars. Old plank door with inserted window in centre. Inward face of mill building has an old plank door to right of ground storey and a C19 casement window with glazing-bars to left. Against gable-wall of mill a ruined, single-storey lean-to. At rear is an iron mill-wheel moulded with the maker's name, WILLCOCKS & SON, BUCKFASTLEIGH; wooden spokes and paddles have mostly rotted away. Fronting the road is a good garden wall of large-scale granite rubble and 2 plain granite gateposts. Interior of house and mill not inspected but 1977 provisional list said that "internally it retains much of the original machinery with wooden gearing and belt drives".

Listing NGR: SX7008273874