Building record 1085/1/1 - Kinderton Mill

<1> 1941, A Middlewich Cartulary - Chetham Society (Book). SCH101.

A mill is recorded at Kinderton in 1330 - "Le Milneway que ducit versus Kinderton"

<2> Thompson, P, 1981, Middlewich: The Archaeological Potential of a Town, /7 (Report). SCH2194.

The mill pool and dam lay between the mill and King Street. Pool now filled in and built over

<3> Various, Cheshire History, 11/60 Bott O J P 1983 (Journal/Periodical). SCH811.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /18 (Report). SCH1934.

The present mill building has been converted into a workshop. Has datestone 1609 but this may have been moved, but has C17 stone-dressed brickwork and slate roof. Original three storeys high with later additions. Chamfered stone mullioned windows and ball finials to coped gables. Former wheel pit shows scratch marks of the one wheel and the setting for another on the opposite side of the building. No machinery survives except one penstock. Mill building at SJ 7049 6636

<5> County Historic Environment Record, Site Visit/Watching Brief Observation Report Form, ECH3491 (Unpublished Document). SCH4357.

Site visit in 2002 prior to the building of a new houise in the area of the millpond. Discovered that the area of the mill pond was filled with imported soil and graded in the 1980s for the construction of Pool house.