Clifton Mill, Millhouse and Attached Millstream Bridge
CLIFTON MILL, MILLHOUSE AND ATTACHED MILLSTREAM BRIDGE, B4031
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200212
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton Mill, Millhouse and Attached Millstream Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFTON MILL, MILLHOUSE AND ATTACHED MILLSTREAM BRIDGE, B4031
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200212
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton Mill, Millhouse and Attached Millstream Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFTON MILL, MILLHOUSE AND ATTACHED MILLSTREAM BRIDGE, B4031
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:
- CLIFTON MILL, MILLHOUSE AND ATTACHED MILLSTREAM BRIDGE, B4031
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Deddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49202 31900
Details
SP43SE DEDDINGTON B4031 (North side) Clifton 3/132 Clifton Mill, Millhouse and attached millstream bridge
II Watermill, millhouse and bridge. C17 and C19. Coursed limestone rubble and coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings and some wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs. L-shaped plan. Mill, of 2 storeys plus loft, is in 2 builds, the larger to east mainly C17 and built of limestone. Its road front includes 2 small windows, with moulded-stone surrounds, flanking a central opening with chamfered jambs and a stone lintel, to extreme right is a stable-type door, and to extreme left a wide segmental-arched opening with a chamfered ashlar surround; first floor has 2-light casements flanking a loading door. Right end wall has a further loading door above 2 blocked windows with moulded stone surrounds. The C19 section is taller and has marlstone-ashlar dressings. Millhouse, returning at rightangles from it, is an irregular 5-window range of 2 storeys and of several builds, although probably mainly c17; it is part limestone and part marlstone and has renewed casements, some retaining chamfered lintels. Steep-pitched roof has 2 weatherboarded gables and 2 brick stacks. Interior: Mill has a metal breast-shot wheel and fairly complete wood and metal gear, but formerly had a second wheel. Bridge over tailrace, carrying the B4031, is in coursed rubble with a C19 brick segmental arch; plain parapet has flat copings and extends approximately 20 metres to west, (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p107; Foreman, W.: Oxfordshire Mills, 1983; p104)
Listing NGR: SP4920231900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243856
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969)
Foreman, W, Oxfordshire Mills, (1976), 104
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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