Oakford Mill
OAKFORD MILL, OAKFORD BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169799
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Oakford Mill
- Statutory Address:
- OAKFORD MILL, OAKFORD BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169799
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Oakford Mill
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKFORD MILL, OAKFORD BRIDGE
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:
- OAKFORD MILL, OAKFORD BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oakford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 91984 21884
Details
SS 92 SW OAKFORD OAKFORD BRIDGE
5/149 Oakford Mill 5.4.66
GV II
Mill and adjoining house. Probably early C19, but likely to be on the site of a Domesday Mill. Whitewashed stone rubble; bitumen-painted slate roof, gabled at ends; left end stack with brick shaft, lateral stack with brick shaft to rear wing. Plan: L plan, the front block divided between the mill, to the right, and domestic use, to the left which extents into the rear left wing. 1 room plan C20 infill in the right angle between the front block and rear wing; C20 single-storey lean-to against left return. Conspicuously-sited on the roadside with Oakford bridge over the Exe to the left (q.v.) and a small bridge over the leat to the right (q.v.). The leat powers an undershot water wheel (roofed over) at the right end of the front block. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with a C20 timber door to left of centre giving access to the mill and a first floor timber loading door to right centre. 3 first floor early C19 windows with rounded arches and pretty 2-light small-pane timber casements with rounded heads. 2-light small pane timber casements to the ground floor. The domestic part of the building is entered on the left return, through the C20 lean-to ; the left return has 1 early C19 first floor rounded arched window with similar glazing to those on the front. At the right end of the main block the building projects over the leat with 2 round arches, the left arch feeds the leat to the wheel, the right hand arch is a sluice gate. Interior: Mill only inspected. Iron wheel with timber floats and wheelshaft. Considerable survival of machinery on 3 floors including the gearing for a spurwheel drive arrangment; sack hoist and sack-hoist doors; grindstone; timber hopper and a series of timber chutes. The collar rafter roof trusses are probably early C19.
Listing NGR: SS9198421884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96797
- 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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