Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26420993

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