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| HER Number | MWB6238 |
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| Record Type | Building |
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| Name | Tidmarsh Mill |
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Summary
Grade II listed wheel driven water mill and mill house on the River Pang
Associated Legal Designations or Protected Status
- Listed Building (II) 1215730: THE MILL HOUSE AND THE MILL FLAT
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 05101.00.000
- Old Listed Building Ref (pre 1984) (III): Map No 21 6/5C Tidmarsh Mill
C.17. and later. 2 storey and attic. West front of colour washed brick, 1st floor string, old tile roof. Central attic gable of timber frame and brick with 2-light leaded casements. On 1st floor - central single light flanked by 6-light mullioned and transomed wood leaded casements, partly restored.
On ground floor from left hand - 3-light leaded casement - half glazed central door in modern porch and two 2-light casements. Early C.19. wing to left hand with gable end facing south. North front 2 storey and irregular. Interior?
Monument Type(s):
- WATERMILL (13th century to Mid 20th century - 1239 AD to 1937 AD)
- MILL HOUSE (18th - 19th century - 1701 AD to 1900 AD)
Full Description
Water mill on River Pang (listed by J.K. Major) wheel driven, converted to a house by 1962 <1>.
The mill house was lived in by members of the Bloomsbury Group, the writer Lytton Strachey and the artist Dora Carrington, between 1917 and 1924. Dora Carrington painted an oil of the building in 1918.
There is a documentary reference to a mill in 1239 <3>. In the 19th century Tidmarsh Mill, like Pangbourne Mill was owned by the Stone family <8>. The mill closed in 1937 <3>, but some mill machinery appears to have been retained into the 21st century.
Sources and further reading
| <00> | 1950-83. Buildings included in the statutory list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, pre Review. WBC Network. Map No 21 6/5C. [Unpublished document / SWB10875] |
| <01> | Berkshire Archaeological Society. 1963-4. Berkshire Archaeological Journal 1963-64 61. 61. In ADS Journals. 10.5284/1000017. p83-91 No 66 in Berkshire Watermills by J Kenneth Major. [Article in serial / SWB12042]
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/berks_bas_2007/journal.cfm?volume=61 (Accessed 21/05/2013) |
| <02> | Tyack, G, Bradley, S and Pevsner, N. 2010. The Buildings of England (Berkshire). p563. [Monograph / SWB147855] |
| <03> | Greenaway, D. 2007. Around the Valley of the Pang: An Exploration of the Pang Valley in West Berkshire
Around the Valley of the Pang: An Exploration of the Pang Valley in West Berkshire. p149. [Monograph / SWB147222]
https://westberks.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=570267 (Accessed on 10/09/2024) |
| <04> | Dils, J and Yates, M (ed). 2012. An Historical Atlas of Berkshire (2nd Edition). p92-93, Berkshire Watermills by Brian Boulter and Sheila Viner. [Monograph / SWB148708] |
| <05> | Greenaway, D and Dunlop, L. 2011. Around the Three Valleys. p199. [Monograph / SWB148275] |
| <06> | Greenaway, D and Ward, D (ed). 2003. In the Valley of the Pang. p100 in Watermills on the River Pang by Dorcas Ward. [Monograph / SWB14177] |
| <07> | Page and Ditchfield (eds). 1923. Victoria County History (VCH) Berks III 1923. Vol 3. online. p433. [Monograph / SWB10005]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3 (Accessed 08/03/2022) |
| <08> | Kenneth Major, J. 1980. Robert Stone, Miller of Pangbourne. Bibliotheca Molinologica volume 5. [Monograph / SWB14178] |
| <09> | Dodd, M. 1840. Tidmarsh tithe map. Numbered '65'. [Map / SWB150583]
http://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/GetImage.ashx?db=Catalog&type=default&fname=Tidmarsh+D-D1-131-1.jpg (Accessed 07/11/2023) |
| <10> | Newbury District Council. 1974-83. Map indicating the buildings included in the statutory list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, pre Review. 1:10,000. Map No 21 6/5c. [Map / SWB150166] |
Related Monuments
| MWB3625 | Tidmarsh Village (Place) |
| MWB21671 | Tidmarsh Mill bridge, Mill Lane, Tidmarsh (Monument) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
| EWB862 | Berkshire Watermills - Survey 1963 |
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