The Mill (EHER 37073)

Late 19th century steam mill on site of earlier post mill.

Late 19th century three storey brick mill with a slate roof and weather-boarded addition, used until very recently as a corn mill (although not by steam). Two millstones are embedded in a garden wall opposite. Auxiliary steam power seems to have begun by 1886 (Kelly) and the present buildings date from that decade. A windmill was present up until about 1920. The nearby mill cottage is a renovated 17th century house. Converted to residential use Cock Green mill is a late 19th century -early 20th century three bay, 2½ storey brick built steam mill with an in line two storey three bay timber-framed, weather-boarded granary to the south and a single storey lean-to engine house to the north. Built using stock red bricks in Flemish bond the mill has a gabled slate covered roof interrupted by a central lucam projecting to roadside (west). Below the lucam is a former taking-in door which has been converted to a window and at ground floor a central doorway with a batten door and blue bull nose brick jambs. The original window apertures were all built with segmental heads of two on-edge courses and chamfered brick sills. The windows of the ground floor are larger than those above and have fixed cast-iron frames with either 7 x 5 glass panes (ground) or 5 x 5 glass panes (first floor). The gabled lucam is clad in weatherboard and supported on straight braces springing from moulded stone corbels. Barge boards, soffits and R.W.G s are all modern. The two gable windows formerly lighting the attic storey also have metal frames although the northern window appears to have been lowered (probably when the central floor to the lucam was removed as part of the mills conversion) and small casements added either side. The roof has been re-covered using original materials and two roof lights have been inserted into the rear eastern roof pitch. To the south is a two storey timber-framed and weather-boarded former granary range. The sliding shutters to ground floor window (formerly a loading door) mentioned in the listing no longer remain although the shutter rail survives. The larger windows are similar in appearance to those in the brick mill but along with the smaller windows are modern additions. The lean-to engine house abutting the north wall is built using the same materials as the main brick mill and shares architectural characteristics including the use of bull nose bricks to the door jambs and the cast-iron fixed glazing. The lean-to was built with a canted end to the NE due to the triangular plot of land it occupies. To the NW is a Grade II listed 17th century millers house (EHER 37074) which incorporates two millstones within its roadside boundary wall and to the south the site of the former windmill (EHER 1057) which the steam mill replaced. Present Use: Residential Condition: Good Order <1> Information from NRHE (TL 69681982 - sited from HHR maplet) The Mill was a steam mill, late 19th century on site of post mill, now in light industrial use, two storeys and attic. Grade II. (See list for details). <2> TL 697198. Steam Mill, Cock Green. Late 19th century. A 2-storey brick and slated building with hoist loft, probably built about 1886 on the site of a post mill and now in light industrial use. Two millstones are embedded in garden wall opposite. <3>