Building record 0287101000 - MILL HOUSE, 191 HIGH STREET

Plan Form - L SHAPED
C17 OR EARLIER HOUSE OF 2 STOREYS & ATTIC, ATTACHED TO WATERMILL (B6).
Grade II. C17, former water mill and house. Brick chequer pattern to front of red stretchers. Grey headers. Old tile roof with coped gables, end brick stacks, coved cornice. Two storeys, plinth, first floor band. Seven windows, five in centre cross mullion and transome type, end windows single light transomed only. Old leaded glazing, segmental arches to ground floor. Central 6-panel door with rectangular fanlight and hood. Gable walls with first and attic floorbands. C17 or earlier timber framed range attached to north-east corner, now converted to living accommodation, altered. Red brick infill, tiled roof, two gabled eaves dormers modern ground floor casements. Rear elevation and interior altered. (RCHM I p6 MON 24)(B10).




Town Mill and House, originally a paper mill, now a corn mill, at the west end of the High Street. The mill is of two storeys, the house of two storeys and an attic. The roofs are tiled. Built at the beginning of the 17th century, or possibly earlier, of brick and timber, the mill is partly weather-boarded and restored with modern brick. The front block of red brick with black headers, was added in the 17th century, when the west wall of the older block was refaced with similar brick. L-shaped on plan, the short wing faces south, and the mill, the long narrow wing on the east, extends to the north. The south front has a plain, string-course between the storeys and at the back, the lower storey of the house is restored with modern brick, the upper storey has an eight-light mullioned window, and the attic, an original three-light dormer window with gabled head. The west end has two gables, with a chimney stack in the middle of the southern gable, and a flat string-course at upper floor level. The older, north block has an original door-frame and a mullioned window. The east end resembles the west end, but the mill covers the north half, and is gabled at both ends. Inside, some original rough timbers and wall-posts are visible. The roof, much restored, retains old timbers, one beam is dated 1700, when a new 'Pitt wheel' was put in, and another 1701, when a new stone was set (B6).

… the malt-mill of that date [1504] (a) is perhaps the corn-mill, now with the old timbered mill-house situated at the western extremity of the town. It has been in the same ownership for about a century as the brewery and malt-house of Messrs. W. & G. Weller, which lie off the High Street near the church. [see Bucks 43 NW 5] (B7).

"C.17. Originally a paper mill, later a flour mill, now a house. Red stretchers, grey headers, old tile roof with coved cornice. 2 storeys, plinth, 1st floor band. 7 lattice casements, 2-light except for 1-light end windows. 6 panel door with oblong fanlight and hood. Barn on right at right angles to main building. Timber framed with red brick nogging and some weather boarding. 2 storeys. Partly unused, partly converted into addition to house. Town Mill House, Grade II. Barn to Town Mill House, Grade II." [Refers to authority (2) and N.B.R.] (B12).

The mill-house, now called 'The Mill' (nameboard) is situated at SU 9530 9752. It is now a private dwelling and the former mill (described as a barn by authy. 4) adjoining used as its normal domestic outbuildings. GP/AO/60/49/5 : view from S.E. Extent indicated on Special 25" (B13).

There were three mills recorded at Amersham in Domesday. Additional notes on watermills in Buckinghamshire (B14)