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| HER Number | MWB6244 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | Deerbourne, Inkpen (formerly The Willows and then New Mill) |
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Summary
Unlisted house of at least 19th century date, adjacent to a large pond and possibly originally part of a mill complex on a tributary of the River Kennet, Peartree Bottom
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 05107.00.000
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
Major includes New Mill, Inkpen in his gazetteer of water mills <1>. It actually lies just within Kintbury parish. The mill is described as 'Gone' but a 'large mill pond and fine house remain' <1>. The watercourse is a tributary of the River Kennet, named as Peartree Bottom <2>.
The New Mill, Inkpen (within Kintbury parish) is an unlisted building sited next to a large pond, marked on historic mapping as a fish pond. At the time the First Edition Ordnance Survey <2> it was named 'The Willows', and it only appears to have been called New Mill since the later 20th century <3>. By 1911 a walled garden had been constructed in the grounds south of the house <9>. Other landscape features include a foot bridge to an island in the pond and a boat house.
Information submitted with a planning application in 2007 <5> suggested that the house dated from the 1820s although no documentary evidence was given for this. No other mill buildings appear to have survived. The house and pond are not shown on the Ordnance Survey Drawing of 1817 <8>.
The house's name was changed to Deerbourne in c2021.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | Berkshire Archaeological Society. 1963-4. Berkshire Archaeological Journal 1963-64 61. 61. In ADS Journals. 10.5284/1000017. p83-91 No 72 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> | Landmark. 1872-85. Digital Ordnance Survey Mapping Epoch 1, 1:2500 (25 inch). Digital. 1:2500. Marked 'The Willows'. [Map / SWB14341] |
| <03> | Ordnance Survey. c. 1980. Ordnance Survey Epoch 7. 1:10560. 1:2500, 1972 Marked 'New Mill'. [Map / SWB14666] |
| <04> | Kintbury Volunteer Group. 2004. Kintbury through the ages. p53-54 (illust). [Monograph / SWB14205] |
| <05> | West Berkshire Council. 2000-present. West Berkshire Planning Applications 2000 onwards. online. 07/02417/HOUSE. [Unpublished document / SWB147564]
http://planning.westberks.gov.uk/rpp/index.asp?caseref= (initial string - planning application number to be added after this) |
| <06> | 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] |
| <07> | Page and Ditchfield (eds). 1924. Victoria County History (VCH) Berks IV 1924. Vol 4. p203-4, 206. [Monograph / SWB10281]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4 (Accessed 24/09/2015) |
| <08> | Ordnance Survey. 1817. Ordnance Survey Drawing of Hungerford; BL OSD 78,7. Two inch to the mile. Not marked. [Map / SWB147234]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordnance_Survey_Drawings_-_Hampshire_(OSD_78).jpg (Accessed on 20/06/2022) |
| <09> | Landmark. 1912-24. Digital Ordnance Survey Mapping Epoch 3, 1:2500 (25 inch). Digital. 25 inches to a mile. 1911. [Map / SWB14456] |
Related Monuments
| MWB3794 | Pond at New Mill, Inkpen (Monument) |
| MWB21199 | Possible site of Inkpen Mill - approximate location (Monument) |
| MWB16909 | Willow Farm (Monument) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
| EWB862 | Berkshire Watermills - Survey 1963 |
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