Thomas, N. (2012). New Mills, Launceston, Cornwall: historic building record. Cornwall Archaeological Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1028089. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 New Mills, Launceston, Cornwall: historic building record
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Series:		 Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service unpublished report series
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1028089
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Abstract:		 Plans to convert a former corn mill at New Mills, Launceston to residential use prompted a study of the historical development of this site. The place-name of New Mills is first documented in the 15th century and a mill was mapped here on the parish Tithe Map in the 1840s. Later mapping indicates that the mill has an altered plan; the physical structure also has evidence of a major rebuild including windows and doors with brick arches and jambs. Timberwork from the earlier mill building has been reused as lintels above the present doorways and windows. The surviving waterwheel was manufactured locally and has a date of 1905, the probable date of the mill's redevelopment. A pigsty built in similar style immediately opposite the mill is probably of the same period. The group of buildings (including the mill, its adjoining shippons and loft, plus the pigsty, appear to represent an Edwardian phase of redevelopment of the New Mills farmstead. Much of this development is likely to have been a response to the arrival of the North Cornwall Railway, whose route passed immediately north of the mill and the development of the transport link will have dramatically changed this valley. In the later 20th century the gearing to the millstones was removed and only one set of stones now remains in situ. At this time the countershaft drive from the waterwheel was converted to power a dynamo and a vacuum pump for a milking machine. These were used within the adjacent shippon, which was adapted as a milking parlour. In recent years the mill has housed a small farming museum within the New Mills Farm Park attraction.
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Author:		 N Thomas
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Publisher:		 Cornwall Archaeological Unit
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2012
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Site: New Mills
Parish: ST STEPHENS BY LAUNCESTON RURAL
District: Cornwall
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: North Cornwall Railway
Location - Auto Detected: New Mills Farm Park
Location - Auto Detected: New Mills Launceston Cornwall
Location - Auto Detected: New Mills Launceston
Location - Auto Detected: New Mills
Grid Reference: 229897, 85064 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) NONE (Find)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) CORN MILL (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CORN MILL (Monument Type England)
Edwardian (MIDAS)
BUILDING SURVEY (Event)
1840s Later (Auto Detected Temporal)
20th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
15th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
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OASIS Id: cornwall2-138499
OBIB: 2012R085
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Created Date:		 28 Nov 2016