Luccombe House and Mill

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Luccombe House and Mill - Imber Road

Luccombe House is a fine Regency-style mill owner’s house, built in the 1820s, by Trowbridge clothier Thomas Jarvis who moved there from Mill Vale House. Bratton’s woollen industry was thriving at the time, benefitting from the Napoleonic Wars and the resulting upsurge in demand for cloth for military uniforms. Jarvis owned three cloth mills in Bratton (the other two, Bridge Mill and Aldridge’s Mill) harnessing the power of the fast-flowing stream of the Stradbrook.

In 1822 Jarvis retired and his three mills were rented by former cloth worker Isaac Brent and then his sons. Luccombe Mill was advertised in 1839 as a ‘capital cloth factory with overshot wheel and mill gear’ and in 1847 a steam engine was acquired. Sadly, by 1880, the Brent family business had collapsed, and the mill was demolished.

However the large mill pond still remains, providing a beautiful setting for the house and a wildlife habitat to many varieties of birds, including, kingfishers, moorhens, ducks, wagtails and, until recently, a pair of swans. The pond is fed with crystal clear water from one of many springs located at the foothills of the chalk aquifer of Salisbury Plain, at a spot known locally as ‘Paradise Pool’.

'Then and Now - Luccombe Mill and House, Bratton' Wiltshire Times

'Bratton Mills' by Jean Morrison

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