Listed Building record MDO10262 - Louds Mill, St George's Road, Fordington, Dorchester

A mill built of red brick, with a projecting wing at the back and a stable building and circular corn store at one end. The north end of the building is dated 1779, and the south end 1826. Originally a cloth mill but subsequently converted to a sewage pumping station, stores and three houses. The water wheel has been removed.

Lowd's Mill is recorded as having been recently built in 1607 by William Churchill on a site where no mill previously existed. <3>

Loud's Mill. Consists of a three and four storey red brick range, the north end being dated 1779 and the south end 1826. At right angles to the north end is a stable building with a circular corn-store at one end.

The buildings were originally a cloth mill but are now used as a sewage pumping station, stores and three dwelling houses. The former water wheel has been removed. <4>

Loud's Mill (SY 708903) comprises a late 18th century building of four storeys, an early 19th century building of three storyes and lower buildings, one of which housed the mill-wheel; all are now converted to other uses. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, Dorset Sheet XL.16, surveyed, published 1890 (Map). SWX1197.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 70849030) Loud's Mill (NAT)

<3> Bartelot, R G, 1915, The History of Fordington. A British Battleground, a Roman Suburb, a Royal Manor, and a Prebendal Church, 207 (Monograph). SDO9590.

<4> Addison, J, and Wailes, R, 1963, Dorset Watermills; Transactions of the Newcomen Society 35, 205 (Article in serial). SWX1484.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 131 (Monograph). SDO148.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/063 South West Textile Mills Project (Unpublished document). SDO17323.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454987 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 7 2023 1:06PM