Balscott Mill House

BALSCOTT MILL HOUSE, SHUTFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046752
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Balscott Mill House
Statutory Address:
BALSCOTT MILL HOUSE, SHUTFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046752
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Balscott Mill House
Statutory Address 1:
BALSCOTT MILL HOUSE, SHUTFORD ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BALSCOTT MILL HOUSE, SHUTFORD ROAD

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Wroxton
National Grid Reference:
SP 39167 40727

Details

WROXTON SHUTFORD ROAD SP34SE (East side) Balscott 2/256 Balscott Mill House GV II Mill house. C17 origin with later additions and alterations. 2 buildings. Coursed ironstone rubble and squared coursed ironstone, Welsh slate roofs. Brick ridge and end stacks. Two 2-unit parts forming large range; lower earlier part on left. 4-window range altogether. Left part. Said to have been partly rebuilt following a fire. 2 stable doors with wood lintels. Sash windows and 3-light metal casements with wood lintels. Right part. C18/C19. Two entrances have plank doors with wood lintels. Ground and first floors each have two 3-light casements with wood lintels. (VCH: 0xfordshire, Vol IX, p175)

Listing NGR: SP3916740727

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
244813
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 175

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Balscott Mill House

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