Listed Building record MDO5450 - Mullen's Mill House, Corfe Mullen

Watermill and attached house, of medieval origin but mainly early 18th century with a 19th century extension and details. Converted to a restaurant and house in the 20th century. Built of brick in English bond with cambered heads to the older openings. The roof is tiled with stone slates to the lower courses. The main north-south structure of the mill is of two storeys with an attic, and rests on a base of stone walling, pierced by two water channels. The mill was extended at the north end as a timber framed building, with boarded walls above a cart shed open ground floor which is now infilled with brick. The south end contains the house as a crosswing.

Watermill and attached house, of medieval origin but mainly early 18th century with a 19th century extension and details. Converted to a restaurant and house in the 20th century. Built of brick in English bond with cambered heads to the older openings. The roof is tiled with stone slates to the lower courses. The main north-south structure of the mill is of two storeys with an attic, and rests on a base of stone walling, pierced by two water channels. The mill was extended at the north end as a timber framed building, with boarded walls above a cart shed open ground floor which is now infilled with brick. The south end contains the house as a crosswing. <1>

ViewFinder BB96/08865 <4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 103 (Monograph). SDO148.

'(6) Mill House and Water Mill, 60 yds. W. of (4), are respectively of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The house front was originally symmetrical with a central doorway flanked by single casement windows with segmental-arched heads. The doorway and the W. window were opened out and three-sided projecting window bays added c. 1830. The Mill stands at a right angle to the house. Earlier masonry, including an arch with keystone inscribed AC 1714, remains in the lower part of the W. wall. The machinery has been removed.'

<2> DOE (HHR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne and Cranborne RD, 2 (Scheduling record). SDO17339.

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF081525 THE OLD MILL, MILL STREET, CORFE MULLEN (Index). SDO14738.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1150827 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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