Building record MWX786 - Corn Mill at Organford, Lytchett Minster

A mill built in the late 18th or early 19th century. The building has brick walls and a slate-covered roof. In 1970 the machinery was reported as being partly dismantled.

SY 938922. Mill at Organ Ford of three storeys with brick walls and slated roof has segmental-headed door and window openings alternating with blind recesses of late-18th or early-19th century date. The machinery is partly dismantled. (2)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1925 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 93899227) Corn Mill (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 159 (Monograph). SDO148.

'The following monuments unless otherwise described are small houses and cottages of one storey with attics or two storeys, with walls of cob sometimes refaced in brick and with thatched roofs; they are of the late 18th or early 19th century. . . . (28) MILL (938922), at Organ Ford, of three storeys with brick walls and slated roof, has segmental-headed door and window opening alternating with blind recesses. It is said to have had four pairs of barley stones and one pair of wheat stones driven by an external water wheel; the machinery is partly dismantled.'

<3> DOE (HRR), 30 June 1980, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Poole 1980, p1 (Scheduling record). SWX3744.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457419 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 16 2023 1:06PM