Building record 6267/1/1 - Kings Sutton Mill

Water-powered corn mill extant in the 19th century, built of stone with a slate roof. Attached mill house.

{1} Eyres' map from the C18th annotates the watermill as "Parker's Mill".

{2} Sutton Mill mapped c.1810-20.

{3} Marked as "Sydenham Mill" in 1827.

{4} Kings Sutton Mill (Corn).

{5} Still marked as a mill in the 1950s.

{6} History:
1086 Domesday Survey records Sudtone with one mill rendering 10s 8d; and Sutone with one mill rendering 32d and another rendering 2s
1777 James and Elias Simson, millers at King's Sutton
1861 Elias Simson, miller and farmer, at King's Sutton Mill
1868 Following repairs to the mill, there was a dispute between Alexander Kirby, millwright, and David Jeromess, the miller
1894-1920 Lane family worked the mill
1927 Described as 'long out of use'
Documentary sources: Eyre's and Jeffery's 1791 map marks it Mill; Bryant's 1827 map marks it incorrectly as Sydenham Mill; 1883 1 inch OS map marks it simply as Mill; 1968 1 inch OS map mark it King's Sutton Mill

The former mill is of two storeys and an attic storey. It is of coursed stone, with a Welsh slate gabled roof. The west side has casement windows with wooden lintels on each storey, with a single door near the south end and a between storeys casement window just to the right of the door, with its sill touching the door lintel. In the south gable end there are recently installed windows ad a door. In the gable is a two light casement window below a segmental brick lintel. Below this there is a wide wooden and glass bay, of the same height as the single door on its right.
Adjoining the north side of the mill is the mill cottage of the same height and breadth as the mill, and similar windows. Its roof is a continuation of that of the former mill. Adjoining the cottage is another two-storey building, its width extending beyond the west wall of mill and cottage. Its roof also is a continuation of mill and cottage but, because of the increase in width its eaves are slightly lower. Brick chimney stacks, with pots, rise from the roof at the south end of the cottage and the north end of the adjoining house.

{7} Post medieval mill comprising building, pond and leat.

{8} Some vestiges of mill related items are still in situ

<1> Eyre T. (Revised by Jefferys T.), 1779, Map of the County of Northamptonshire (Map). SNN1852.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1811-9, First Edition Ordnance Survey Surveyors Drawings, Sheet 225 (Map). SNN104902.

<3> Bryant A., 1827, Map of The County of Northampton, (part checked) (Map). SNN2733.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1880 (circa), First Edition OS 6 Inch Mapping Series (62SW), (part checked) (Map). SNN104979.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1950 (circa), Ordnance Survey 1950s Mapping Series (SP43), (part checked) (Map). SNN104981.

<6> STARMER G., 2002?, Northamptonshire Watermills Survey 2001 - 2002 (H-Z), p.80 (checked) (Report). SNN105521.

<7> Starmer G.H., 1982, National Register of Industrial Monuments, Recorded by JF Carter, Jun-1966, Record No.308314 (Catalogue). SNN563.

<8> Bond, A., SMR Report Form, (unchecked) (SMR Report Form). SNN104802.

<9> Bond, A., Mill House Farm King's Sutton, (unchecked) (Photographs). SNN109600.

<10> Malcom E. Timms Architectural Consultant, 1999, Mill House Farm King's Sutton: Survey as Existing, (unchecked) (Plan). SNN109601.

<11> Historic England, Undated, National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards, NRI01 (Archive). SNN113469.

Record last edited

Oct 23 2024 10:27AM