Monument record MDO44589 - Brimley Mill, Stoke Abbott

The site comprises an early 19th century house with a mill attached to the end and two separate workshops. The house is of 3 storeys, with 3 bays and has a 2 storey extension. Built of rubble stone. The mill is of two bays, the overshot iron wheel and wooden / iron machinery is still in situ. The wheel projects through a door in the front elevation and there is an angled buttress to the front elevation. There is a 2 storeyed workshop attached to the corner of the mill, it is of approximately three bays with central taking-in doors and long multi-light windows. A similar second detached workshop in the yard has long windows, which replace earlier blocked windows, and has an extension with a weatherboarded end wall. There is also one other possible workshop in the modified detached privy block.

<1> 1848, W Kelly's Post Office Directory Of Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire etc, 2704 (Monograph). SWX1421.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1:2500, Dorset Sheet XXIX.6, Surveyed 1888, Published 1889 (Map). SWX1197.

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/063 South West Textile Mills Project (Unpublished document). SDO17323.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1305402 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 2 2022 4:01PM