Cuttle Mill
CUTTLE MILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066593
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Cuttle Mill
- Statutory Address:
- CUTTLE MILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066593
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Cuttle Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUTTLE MILL
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.
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:
- CUTTLE MILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48011 25114
Details
STEEPLE ASTON SP42NE 2/96 Cuttle Mill 08/12/55 GV II*
Watermill and millhouse, now house. Late C17/early C18, altered c.1738 by William Kent. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; Stonesfield-slate roof with stone and brick stacks. 3-unit plan plus mill in a single range, with a short added wing in Gothick style. 2 storeys. 4-window front of main range has the entrance in bay 2 with flanking 3-light casements, and at first floor has casements of 2, 2, 3 and 2 lights; bay 4 has a second inserted entrance and a 2-light casement adjoining the projecting wing. Range extends slightly beyond the wing with a further tall opening, now a window. Stepped gable of wing has crocketed corner pinnacles plus 2 intermediate re-set pinnacles, and contains a quatrefoil window above a tall ogee-headed window below which is a rebuilt stone stair; rubble flying buttresses flanking the gable wall are now topped by large rubble pinnacles, but originally carried the 2 crocketed pinnacles re-set on the gable. Roof of main range has a brick stack to the left gable, plus a large central stone stack. Interior: open fireplace; stop-chamfered beam. Re-modelled by Kent to form "The Temple of the Mill" in the principal view from Rousham Park; one of the earliest examples of a picturesque eyecatcher. (Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p745; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p38; M. Jourdain, The Work of William Kent, 1948, p81)
Listing NGR: SP4801125114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422385
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jourdain, M, The Work of William Kent, (1948), 81
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 38
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 745
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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