Former Witney Mill

Former Witney Mill, Mill Street, OX28 6DE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213531
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: Former Witney Mill
Statutory Address:: Former Witney Mill, Mill Street, OX28 6DE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213531
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: Former Witney Mill
Statutory Address 1:: Former Witney Mill, Mill Street, OX28 6DE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Former Witney Mill, Mill Street, OX28 6DE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Witney
National Grid Reference:: SP 35450 10370

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 October 2024 to update the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

SP3510 5/204

WITNEY MILL STREET (North side) Former Witney Mill

(Formerly listed as Witney Mill at SP 3545 1037)

II

Blanket mill, c.1820. Squared and coursed limestone with brick walling to gable ends; stone-coped Welsh-slate roof. Four storeys; symmetrical six-window range. Concrete lintel over plank double doors to left and flat stone arch over central plank door. Flat stone arches over iron casements. Interior: heavy beans supported by cast-iron columns.

The mill has water powered, and combined the fulling, weaving and spinning processes under one roof. Shafts and wheels for belts remain, but mill-wheel has gone. The earliest surviving industrial building of Richard Early and Sons Ltd. of which it remains a part. Flanking wings are not of special architectural interest.

(A. Plummer and R.E. Early, "The B1anket Makers").

Listing NGR: SP3545010370

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

Legacy System number:: 398142
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Plummer, A, Early, R E, The Blanket Makers

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.