Building record 0289400001 - New Mills, New Denham

'NEW MILL (CORN)' SHOWN AT NGR. MILL STILL OPERATES, AS KING'S MILL (B7-8) BUT CEASED WORKING BY WATER POWER IN 1915 (B6).
Grade II. 1836 (date plaque) flour mill. Stock brick with low pitch slate roof. Four storeys and attic. 6 window range extended to 7 in matching style at East end. Windows with cambered heads in gauged brick and renewed small pane windows. 2 ground floor doors. Ground floor windows have later red brick infill under sills. At roof level two large projecting weatherboarded sack hoists, renewed. Plaque 'Built 1836 J Penn Engineer J Shoppee Builder'. North side is similar but altered with blocked windows and one bay of loading doors to each floor. There are modern extensions not of interest to left and right (B8).
Shown as 'New Mill' on maps from 1842 onwards. The 1842 Tithe Map schedule records the mill and it's associated buildings, watercourses and closes as owned and occupied by William Henry Hill. 1836 mill shown on maps from 1842 onwards as a rectangular building, apparently with water wheels at both ends. It had been extended at the western end by 1960 and the modern [1977] map shows the grain store erected to the north of the mill, partly over the old mill pond [and the extension at the eastern end]. The front elevation of the listed mill building, which is of four storeys, is characterised by a formal arrangement of small windows in which there is a high proportion of solid to void. On other elevations there are few, if any, original window openings, although small parts of the walls have been removed in places to form doors and other means of access for machinery and loading. The interior has been has been considerably altered. Although most of the main structural elements of the roof and floors remain, none of the original machinery appears to survive. It also appears that original floorboards, ladders, hatches and joists have been swept away by later alterations and the installation of C20 machinery - itself now removed. In places, the main timber beams have been strengthened with steel flitch plates, or modified to stabilise modern machinery. Some of the supporting iron columns have also been re-set. [Photos] (B9).
The historic building is constructed of a combination of load bearing brickwork, cast iron columns and timber cross beams (the latter two items have been the sibject of some localised alteration and strengthening) of four storeys covered by a pitched slate roof. There are two timber sack hoists in the roof to the front elevation. A three storey detached building was constructed circa 1950 to the east end of the mill. The full height extensions linking the Mill to this building were built in the 1980s of concrete clad steel frame (as per the 1950s main building) with brick facing panels. The 1980s extension to the 1950s building required the localised opening up of the eastern flank wall of the original mill building and the introduction of floors to three storeys to access between the two buildings. A silo building [1970s grain store] to the rear is considered to be of a detached constructiuon and is believed to only abut the mill. [Drawings](B10).
Detailed historical notes and 1930s condition. Working in 2006 (B12)