Building record MDO28434 - Lewell Mill, West Knighton

Lewell Mill is probably identical with 'a mylne called East Stafford mylne' mentioned in 1512 and 1552. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 137-138 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(8) Lewell Mill, on the S. bank of the river Frome (738900), is a 16th-century building with rubble walls, which comprised the mill itself and a miller’s house attached; it has been enlarged, partly rebuilt and partly refaced in Broadmayne brick in the late 19th century and later; the whole now forms two dwellings.

The mill building is of two storeys, faced with brick and entirely converted to domestic use. The mill wheel was in a lower wheel-house projecting at the N. end. The miller’s house was an L-shaped building against the S. end of the mill, with wings to W. and S.; the W. wing has a stone-built gable end with a three-light window with hollow-chamfered mullions and a label and other original windows now blocked. The arrangement of the windows suggests that there was a staircase in this wing.

The S. wing has been rebuilt. In the N.E. angle of the house the ground-floor room has richly moulded beams dividing the ceiling into twelve square panels each containing three joists carrying boards running parallel with them.’

<2> Mills, A D, 1977, The place-names of Dorset, Part 1, 210 (Monograph). SWX2852.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455081 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 7 2023 3:41PM