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THE CHESAPEAKE MILL

THE CHESAPEAKE MILL, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1157675
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: THE CHESAPEAKE MILL
Statutory Address:: THE CHESAPEAKE MILL, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1157675
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: THE CHESAPEAKE MILL
Statutory Address 1:: THE CHESAPEAKE MILL, BRIDGE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CHESAPEAKE MILL, BRIDGE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Wickham and Knowle
National Grid Reference:: SU 57419 11521

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WICKHAM

1879/10/30 BRIDGE STREET 29-SEP-03 (North side) THE CHESAPEAKE MILL

GV II* Former corn mill, in working order although the water power no longer exists. Built in 1820 with some late C19 replacement windows and early C20 extension. A stone plaque is inscribed 'ERECTED AD 1820 J PRIOR'. Red brick walls in English bond, slightly-cambered rubbed arches with flat extrados (many plastered), other cambered arches, brick dentilled eaves. Flat roof, with steeply-formed tiled sides, hipped at the corners. Rectangular block of three storeys, with symmetrical treatment of facades: the south front with doorways at ground and 1st floor levels and overhanging boarded hoist at the top, with a window at each side at each level (being small dormers at the top): the rear of two windows: the longer west side of two windows and a central doorway at the 2nd floor. Casements. Plain doorways. A two-storeyed wing extends northwards from the north east corner, with weatherboarding (above the stream) and brick walls, and a C20 single extension, with wide entrance is at the east side. Related to the mill is a pattern of water channels, and the remains of the bearing supports for the water wheels. INTERIOR: Internally the five main spine beams to each floor, the floor joists, the roof timbers and most of the window lintels are of American longleaf pine, known to have originated in the American warship Chesapeake, captured by HMS Shannon 1st June 1813, brought to Portsmouth in 1819 and dismantled. The main spine beams give the width dimensions of the ship and both these and many of the floor joists are recognisable by their beaded moulding. The second spine beam from the front on the ground floor has rebates for the mast partners and carlings. Many timbers bear American carpenters'marks. An office on the ground floor has a partition of wood from The Chesapeake. Some timbers have evidence for canvas partitions. Burn marks on the first floor timber are the marks made firing cannon. A timber on the second floor has the evidence of repaired damage which occurred during a naval engagement and suggests the timber came from the quarterdeck. There is a "ghost" image of a carling on the second floor. The unusual roof shape was dictated by the reused timbers from The Chesapeake which came from the ship's hold and are therefore not decorated. Deck and ceiling planks from The Chesapeake were reused at the sides of the roof under the tiles and have a number of repairs. The interior also includes some reused beams under the ground floor from a previous mill on the site, reused cast iron columns, a 1920s or 1930s turbine which is in working order and all the machinery necessary for the working of a corn mill. HISTORY: The Chesapeake was one of four American frigates of 44 guns built at Gosport naval yard in Virginia and launched on February 28th 1799. She was finally captured after a famous duel with HMS Shannon in 1813 and served with the Royal Navy from 1814 to 1819 when the ship was sold to Joshua Holmes,a ship breaker in Portsmouth. Timbers from The Chesapeake were bought by John Prior who was preparing to build a new mill at Wickham. The corn mill was in use until the 1970s. Considered the best survival of C18 reused ship's timbers in any building in Britain apart from the royal dockyards.The survival of old ship's timbers is very rare in America. The capture of The Chesapeake was a famous naval action for the Royal Navy and was famous in the United States for the dying words of Captain James Lawrence "Don't give up the ship".

[Unpublished report of 2003 by the Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies,University of St Andrews "The ship within the mill."]

Listing NGR: SU5741411521

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Legacy System number:: 146254
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.