More information : (SS 99104333) Castle Mill (NAT) (1)
5366 DUNSTER MILL LANE
Castle Mill and attached gateway and gates.
SS 9843-9943 4/68 22.5.69 Grade 2* GV
Late 17th century structure, largely rebuilt 1779-1782. Render, slate roof, end gables, recessed centre, gabled projecting side wings slated verges. Two storeys plus attics. Central section comprises two gabled, slate-hung dormer windows, 3-light metal casements in wood frames, leaded lights. First floor has one 3-light metal casement window with leaded lights to left and stable-type plain boarded door to right with hoist. Similar window and door to ground floor. Side wings, one window per floor, quatrefoil attic window with leaded glazing, first floor has 2-light pointed arch window with intersecting tracery and single metal casement, left-hand wing at ground floor 4-light mullioned window set in recessed three-centred arched opening,right-hand wing has plain boarded door in comparable opening.
Twin wooden overshot water wheels at east end. Interior retains mill machinery in working order. Rubble wall with brick dressing juts from south-east angle of mill, pierced by pointed arch opening with
wrought-iron gates, lancet opening above, moulded stone final. (2)
Dunster Castle Mill, on the site of a mill mentioned in Domesday, was
restored to working order in 1979. The National Monument Record has a full photographic record of the mill with plans and elevations made by R Chidgey in 1970. (3-4)
Additional bibliography. (5-7)
The Castle Mill referred to above (1-7) has also been recorded as SS 94 SE 105, UID 543249. (9)
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