Duxford Mill

DUXFORD MILL, MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128122
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Duxford Mill
Statutory Address:
DUXFORD MILL, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128122
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Duxford Mill
Statutory Address 1:
DUXFORD MILL, 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DUXFORD MILL, 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:
Duxford
National Grid Reference:
TL 48277 46320

Details

TL 4846 DUXFORD MILL LANE: (East Side) 16/62 Duxford Mill GV II Mill and mill house. C18 with early C19 rebuilding and later C19 modifications. Restored and converted to domestic use c.1946. Architect, H.C. Hughes. Red C18 brick, C19 reused--stock brick, painted brick, timber-framed and weatherboarded. Plain tiled mansard roofs and gable end stacks. Long range, mill to south-east of two storeys and two storey attic with single storey wheel house, and mill house of two storeys with attic. North-east elevation: Main entrance to mill house blocked and first and attic floors rebuilt; two entrances to left hand with glazed doors. Four ground floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows in segmental brick arches and eight first floor windows including three hung sash windows and four metal framed casement windows. One fixed-light six-paned window replaces original sack hoist opening and two dormer windows with casements. Carved brick 'R.C. ESQ' near quoin to north-east of mill house. Interior: Internal frame of mill of elm with some timber identification marks. Some surviving features; of mill in attic floors; cast iron mill wheel with diameter of 18 feet and fitted in 1888 with four grinding stones removed c.1946. The mill site recorded in the Doomesday survey, was owned by the de Colville family with Temple Manor in 1200, in 1230 the estate given to the Knight's Templars. Charles Kingsley, a

Listing NGR: TL4827746320

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
52892
Legacy System:
LBS

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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