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Flatford Mill

A visit to the National Trust owned Flatford Mill in Suffolk.

Flatford Mill is a Grade I listed watermill on the River Stour at Flatford in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England. According to the date-stone the mill was built in 1733, but some of the structure may be earlier. Attached to the mill is a 17th-century miller's cottage which is also Grade I listed. The property is in Dedham Vale, a typically English rural landscape.

The mill was owned by the artist John Constable's father and is noted, along with its immediate surroundings as the location for many of Constable's works. It is referred to in the title of one of his most iconic paintings, Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River), and mentioned in the title or is the subject of several others including: Flatford Mill from a lock on the river Stour; Flatford Mill from the lock (A water mill); The Lock. The Hay Wain, which features Willy Lott's Cottage, was painted from the front of the mill.

The mill is located downstream from Bridge Cottage which, along with neighbouring Valley Farm and Willy Lott's Cottage, are leased to the Field Studies Council, a group that uses them as locations for arts, ecology and natural history based courses.

On the guided tour of Flatford Mill. Our guide unlocked a tour and he showed us round the back area that people without a ticket for the tour wouldn't have been able to get up and close to. But we couldn't go inside as that's part of the Field Studies Centre.

Grade I Listed Building

Flatford Mill

Listing Text

TM 03 SE EAST BERGHOLT FLATFORD

3/9 Flatford Mill

22.2.55

GV I

Watermill, now Field Studies Centre. 1733 datestone, incorporating possibly earlier
but altered former granary range to rear and further C19 range adjoining granary.
Later alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with weatherboarded lucam and granary
range. Plain tile roofs. Main range 2 storeys and attic. South front: 4 first
floor windows, central gable to attic. Door to right with overlight in tall opening
which breaks the first floor band. 24-pane segment-arched sash to right. Low plank
door to centre. 4 round-arched windows, 2 with iron glazing bars with radial
glazing to heads and two C20 wooden replicas of these. Small 2-light windows to
first floor. First floor band of 3 courses, similar to gable. Lucam to right
gable end. Rear: two blocked wheel arches. Door under segmental arch surmounted
by datestone. 4-course first floor band. Pitching door above and 2 small windows
under segmental arches. Stepped eaves. Attic gable glazed early C20. Wheel
arrangement altered C19, wheel house added to right. No wheels left in situ. Range
attached to rear left, former granary now incorporated into accommodation. Single
storey and attic. Extension under pent roof to mill pond side, C20 casements.
Gabled dormers to mansard roof. Further brick range at lower level with gabled
dormer to mill pond side. Interior of granary range shows timber-framing with some
chamfered jowled posts, studded walls, massive beams of apparently inserted ceiling.
The mill was in the possession of the Constable family from the mid C18. Its
Grade I status reflects its significance in the life and work of John Constable.
Leased by the National Trust to the Field Studies Council.

Listing NGR: TM0770833249

This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.

Over the footbridge to another Constable viewpoint.

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Taken in: UK / England / Babergh District / Flatford (show map)

Taken on: June 16, 2019

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