FRINGFORD MILL AND ATTACHED MILLHOUSE

FRINGFORD MILL AND ATTACHED MILLHOUSE, A421

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046444
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: FRINGFORD MILL AND ATTACHED MILLHOUSE
Statutory Address:: FRINGFORD MILL AND ATTACHED MILLHOUSE, A421

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Date:: 2001-07-28
Reference:: IOE01/04175/17
Rights:: © Mr Alistair F Nisbet. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1046444
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: FRINGFORD MILL AND ATTACHED MILLHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FRINGFORD MILL AND ATTACHED MILLHOUSE, A421

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:: FRINGFORD MILL AND ATTACHED MILLHOUSE, A421

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Fringford
National Grid Reference:: SP 61320 28732

Details

FRINGFORD A421 (west side) Fringford Mill and attached Millhouse 20/130 The map reference shall be amended to read: 8/130

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FRINGFORD A421 SP6028 (West side) 20/130 Fringford Mill and attached Millhouse

- II

Watermill and millhouse. C18 with possible medieval origins. C19 and C20 repairs and additions. Coursed limestone rubble and squared coursed blocks/limestone. Brick repairs. Weatherboarded left end gable to mill. Steeply-pitched red tile roof. Brick internal ridge and end stacks. Long rectangular range of 4-unit plan altogether. Watermill: 2-unit plan. 2 Storeys and attic. Main entrance in left end. 2 doors on front, one into projecting lean-to on left, which has 3-light casement. Other door has wooden lintel. Left gable has 2 renewed C20 metal casements. The single-storey lean-to has reset 2-light wood-mullioned windows and C20 window. Interior: butt-purlin roof with collars and side purlins. 2 working millstones together with associated mill furniture and tools. The tuns and horses remain on the stone floor, as do the meal arks on the floor below. Unusually slender wooden upright shaft with fine facets. Mill machinery is mainly of iron and of later C19, the stone furniture incorporating earlier woodwork. Exterior mill wheel is a breast waterwheel C19. Millhouse: 2-unit plan with C20 extension on right end. 2-storey, 2-window range. Recessed entrance to left has C20 door. 3 C20 casements with 2 C20 casements over. Large buttress in centre. Interior not inspected but said to have base crucks. A mill at Fringford was mentioned in the Doomsday survey as part of the holdings of Cogges Prior. The mill was worked till early C20 by the Fennemore family and continues to be used for demonstrations. (Information from S.P.A.B. Wind and Watermill Section)

Listing NGR: SP6132028732

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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.