Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
8948
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/03/1985
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Norton Mill
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Locality
Norton
Easting
330613
Northing
266893
Street Side
Location
Set beside the Norton Brook and reached by a track from the main road near Townsend Villa.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Exterior
Early to mid C19, 2 storey mill house and mill under one slate roof (now converted to one residence), basement storey to rear overlooking stream. Rubble walls with segmental rubble voussoirs, rendered stacks. 3 windows wide (on various levels), paired casements with small-pane glazing, boarded loading doors on two levels to centre with house door up steps to left. Rear wall of mill is now partly weatherboarded with modern timber windows and lean-to slated extension.
Ironwork and timber brackets of overshot waterwheel survive below the cistern and feed pipe from the elevated mill pool above. Drive machinery, querns etc survive within the house.
Interior
Reason for designation
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