Hockley Mill Farm

The Hockley Mill Farm, also known as Mt. Pleasant Mills and Frank Knauer Mill, is an historic home and grist mill which is located in Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Hockley Mill Farm
Hockley Mill Farm, March 2011
Hockley Mill Farm is located in Pennsylvania
Hockley Mill Farm
Hockley Mill Farm is located in the United States
Hockley Mill Farm
LocationWarwick Furnace Rd., SE of Knauertown, Warwick Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°09′15″N 75°42′59″W
Area15.7 acres (6.4 ha)
Builtc. 1735, 1780, 1805, c. 1840
Built byKnauer, Christopher
NRHP reference No.90001921[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 18, 1990

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

History and architectural features

This farm has three contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They are the miller's house, a one-and-one-half-story, stone-and-frame grist mill, which was erected in 1805, a stone-and-frame bank barn, which was built circa 1840 and the head and tail races.

The house is a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, banked, fieldstone dwelling with a gable roof. The foundation in the western section was built sometime around 1725 to support a log dwelling. It was expanded with the present eastern section in 1735; the log section was replaced circa 1780.[2]

A two-story, two-bay annex was built between 1935 and 1940, and was expanded in 1965. A shed-roofed addition was built to the north in 1990.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). ARCH: Pennsylvania's Historic Architecture & Archaeology. Retrieved 2012-11-02. Note: This includes Estelle Cremers (September 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Hockley Mill Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-11-20.
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