Listed Building: TARRANT RUSHTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED MILL (103775)

TARRANT RUSHTON ST 90 SW 3/55 - Tarrant Rushton House and attached mill GV II House and attached mill, mid C19. House of banded brick and flint with brick dressings, later C19 brick extension right. Mill in English-bond brickwork with tiled roof. House has slate roof with brick stacks having cogged caps to ends of original range. 2 storeys, original was of 2 window range. House has 3-light casements with glazing bars under segmental brick heads. Mill has 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars under segmental heads to the ground floor. Segmental brick mill race arch to left of mill range. Internally the mill retains much of its original machinery including hurst with enclosed equipment, stone floor with wooden upright shaft, crownwheel etc., remains of wire machine, grain bins, water control mechanism and other items. The undershot waterwheel has largely rotted away. (March 1985). (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.113, no.4. Dorset Mills Survey, notes.) Listing NGR: ST9370205986

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