The Mill House and the Mill

THE MILL HOUSE, LOWER CLEVELEY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200424
Date first listed:
30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
The Mill House and the Mill
Statutory Address:
THE MILL HOUSE, LOWER CLEVELEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200424
Date first listed:
30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
The Mill House and the Mill
Statutory Address 1:
THE MILL HOUSE, LOWER CLEVELEY
Statutory Address 2:
THE MILL, LOWER CLEVELEY

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
THE MILL HOUSE, LOWER CLEVELEY
Statutory Address:
THE MILL, LOWER CLEVELEY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Enstone
National Grid Reference:
SP3920523919

Details

ENSTONE LOWER CLEVELEY
SP32SE
8/58 The Mill House and The Mill

II

Mill house and attached water mill, now house. Probably late C17/early C18 with
later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels: Welsh-slate and
concrete plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. 3-unit cross-passage plan plus
Z-shaped mill range. 2 storeys plus attic. 4-window front of house has a
slightly later bay to left, with a 3-light casement at each floor and the
entrance, (with flat canopy on scroll brackets), adjoining the straight joint;
remainder of front has three tall 2-light casements at first floor plus two
3-light casements below. Steep-pitched roof has 3 stacks and continues over the
former mill to right, which has 2 small windows at each floor with C20
casements, and has a central datestone inscribed "MT/1789"; a lower L-shaped
rear wing returns from the right. Interior: house has stop-chamfered spine
beams. Mill retains some shafting plus the waterwheel, now hidden beneath the
floor.
(W. Foreman: Oxfordshire Mills: 1983, pl04)


Listing NGR: SP3920523919

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
253239
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Foreman, W, Oxfordshire Mills, (1983), 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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