Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage
HINXTON WATERMILL AND MILLERS' COTTAGE, MILL LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128084
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HINXTON WATERMILL AND MILLERS' COTTAGE, MILL LANE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-11-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/09502/34
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Tree. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128084
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Hinxton Watermill and Millers' Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HINXTON WATERMILL AND MILLERS' COTTAGE, MILL LANE
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:
- HINXTON WATERMILL AND MILLERS' COTTAGE, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49313 45249
Details
TL 4845 HINXTON MILL LANE 20/186 24.11.77 Hinxton Watermill and Miller's Cottage GV II Watermill and attached cottage. Cottage C17 with additions c.1766 (dated stack). Mill late C18 with C19 alterations. Timber-framed, plastered and weatherboarded; C19 gault brick. Thatched, pantiled and corrugated iron roofs. Buildings forming an L-plan. Mill to north west two storeys and attic with added Day of two storeys linking north-south cottage range of one storey and attics. North elevation: Original mill weatherboarded with brick plinth. Loft door and boarded entrance door to left hand, double door to right of centre to wheelhouse, and loft door and boarded entrance door to extreme right. Two first floor and one ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows. Large hungy sash window with margin glazing bars in segmental brick arch. Gable of cottage cased in brick with glazed door and large first floor hung sash window. East elevation of cottage with plain tall red brick stacks, to left and right hand, two ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows and two gabled dormer windows with casements. Interior: Original undershot mill wheel removed c.1914 and a "Little Giant" turbine, manufactured by J C Wilson & Co, Picton, Ontario (patented 1875) installed driving three mill stones; a lay shaft provides motive power to a sack hoist and water pump. Machine and corn bins shutes hoppers etc complete. The mill was last used in 1950 and is now owned by the Cambridge Cottage Preservation Society. V.C.H., Vol. VI, p226
Listing NGR: TL4931345249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52999
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 226
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 06-Jun-2026 at 23:13:40.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.