Stone Mill Trowbridge
History
The site of the mill was associated with the original Trowbridge Castle, and was used for corn or grist milling from the 16th century, and subsequently for fulling and large scale cloth manufacture. The part farthest from the road (Court Street) was built as a water-driven factory, probably late in the 18th century, while the higher section at the road end was added in 1817 when a 36 h.p. Boulton and Watt engine was fitted. The builders followed the style of the earlier mill with its flat-headed two-light windows, except for the beam engine house, distinguished by a long arched window (now altered, but still recognisable)
Custodial Time Line - Stone Mill.
| 1544 | Site of the original mill bought by Alexander Langford, eminent clothier |
| 1571 | Mill bought by William Rede |
| 1602 | Mill bought by the Earl of Hertford, lord of the manor |
| 1602-1785 | Series of 'life leases' granted to the Lovell, Houlton and Cooper families (all in the cloth trade) until the break up of the manor |
| 1785 | Mill bought by John Clark, very prosperous clothier |
| 1804 | Mill bequethed to Clark's niece, Mrs Harriet Walker of Redland, near Bristol |
| 1817 | Mill bought by William Webber and Daniel Strang, dyers, (who had built the immediately adjoining Brick Factory) |
| 1831 | Strang died, leaving his share of the mill to his sister, Webber's wife |
| 1849 | Whole building, including the beam engine house, let to J&T Clark for 21 years for £375 rent |
| 1873 | Mill bought for £3750 by brothers Joseph and William Walker, cloth makers trading as J.Walker and Co. |
| 1884 | William Walker became sole owner |
| 1906 | Mill bought by Samuel Salter & Co. Ltd. |
| 1982 | Mill bought by David and Clive Bond |
| 1989 | Mill bought by Hunter Tor Securities Ltd. |
| 1998 | Mill bought by Brickworth Developments Ltd. |
| 2000 | Mill bought by R.H.Tomlinssons (Trowbridge) Ltd. (T.Rothschild) |
| 2005 | Mill bought by Castlemain Developments Ltd. |
| 2011 | Mill bought by Giles UK Ltd. |
| 2014 | Mill bought by Giles Properties Ltd. |
