Mill Farmhouse
MILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046842
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046842
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL FARMHOUSE
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shenington with Alkerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37323 42754
Details
SHENINGTON WITH ALKERTON SHENINGTON SP 3642-3742 7/74 Mill Farmhouse 08/12/55 GV II Farmhouse. Mid C17, possibly with earlier origins, 1662 MP inscribed on bressumer. Roof raised C18/early C19. Coursed squared ironstone. C20-tile roof. 3 renewed concrete end and ridge stacks on stone bases. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. 4-unit plan. 2 storeys plus attic and cellar. 6-window range. 4 entrances including a blocked 4-centred doorway with hood mould and label stops on left, a renewed door with wood lintel to hall, a 4-centred arched doorway on right with renewed door and hood mould with lozenge shaped label stops and carved spandrels. Further doorway on right. Ground floor has two 4-light and three 2-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Window to kitchen on left is of ovolo section. First floor window above kitchen is a 4-light stone mullion also of ovolo section. First floor windows include two 3-light and four 2-light stone mullioned windows. Hood moulds and label stops. Most windows have wrought-iron casement fasteners and springs. 2-light stone mullioned window to cellar. Continuous chamfered stone plinth. Right end has three 2-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops, 2 blocked, one window is situated between the ground and first floors and probably lit a staircase, of which only part of the circular housing remains on the interior. Rear, facing churchyard. Ground floor has a renewed 3-light wood casement inserted within the opening of a window with hood mould and label stops, a 2-light stone mullioned window, a 3-light metal casement inserted within stone surround and a 2-light stone mullioned window. Hood moulds and label stops. First floor has a 3-light and three 2-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops, the window on the far right blocked. Attic has 4 (fake) blocked wood mullioned windows. Interior. Long 4-unit plan of kitchen, hall, parlour and unheated room with cellar under. Stop-chamfered beams, fireplaces with stop-chamfered wooden bressumers or 4-centred arched stone fireplaces with moulded jambs; the fireplace in the hall inscribed 1662 MP. C17 wood spiral staircase located to side of the hall fireplace is opposite one of the entrances from the farmyard. 4-centred arched stone doorway in passageway between parlour and unheated unit. First floor also has a 4-centred arched stone fireplace. Roof has a C19 Queen post roof with side purlins. Plank doors with strap hinges, panelled doors, windows with window seats and panelling, stone flag floors. C20-tile roof is said to have replaced Welsh slate. 4 4-centred arched stone doorway on first floor has bar and brackets. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p140)
Listing NGR: SP3732342754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244630
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 140
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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