Site Event/Activity record ECH5891 - Cogshall Mill ~ Assessment for Scheduling

An assessment of the site of Cogshall Mill for designation as a Scheduled Monument. Cogshall Mill was not recommended for scheduling for the following principal reasons: * Rarity: with about 1,000 designated examples Cogshall Mill is not a rare example of a watermill; * Survival: the drained millpond, the use of engineered brick in the mill building's foundations, overflow channel and bridges, and the fresh appearance of the stone-lined channel carrying Cogshall Brook away from the former mill pond all suggest that the remains here attest to the latest phase of occupation and use of the mill; * Archaeological documentation: there is no record of any archaeological excavation or survey having been undertaken at the mill to support the existence of surviving buried remains of earlier phases of the mill; * Potential; while it is appreciated that evidence for earlier phases of the mill may survive within the existing building foundations it is not possible at present to be certain that such remains exist.