Building record 248/1/2 - Church Minshull Mill House

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ66SE(M) (Index). SCH2487.

Mill house, half timbered - '1697',

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56752 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House, late seventeenth century, with later additions. Plastered, brick nogged timber frame with roof of large old slates. 2 storeys, 4 bays, gabled. Brick plinth with moulded stone top course. Timbers in small framing with angle braces to front and garden front. Replaced casement windows with glazing bars. The garden front (east) has a single storey projecting timber framed porch containing a modern 3 panel door. Gabled bays project and have apexes jettied. There is a timber framed gabled half dormer between the garden front end gables. End gables have barge boards with finials. Chimneys with divided flues. There is an added bay (north) with planted timbers and a single storey wing (east) with imitation plaster timbers. Interior: Bevelled beams and exposed joists. Inscribed stone, set in ground floor internal wall, has initials BSA 1697 and William Wilson 1784.

<3> Norris J.H., 1968, The Water-Powered Corn Mills of Cheshire, p.50 (Article in Journal). SCH6001.

The mill house is a half timber construction.

<4> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, p.156 (Book). SCH3228.

Documentary references to 'le milneheye' in 1391, 'molendinum de Munsel' in 1244 and 'two water-mills in Chirchmunshull, one on the river next to the hall of Hulgreve and the other on a dam next to the hall of Chirchemunshull' in 1343.

<5> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 111/2 1836 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The mill house, mill building. Head race and tail race are clearly depicted. The recorded in the accompanying award as being owned by Henry Brooke and occupied by Mary White.