Building record 0406400000 - SCOTSGROVE MILL
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- Listed Building (II) 1118231: SCOTSGROVE MILL (DBC2148)
Map
Type and Period (5)
- WATERMILL (First mentioned 1086, Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 1999 AD)
- CORN MILL (Medieval to Modern - 1066 AD to 1999 AD)
- WATERMILL (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)
- MILL HOUSE (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD to 1899 AD)
- OUTBUILDING (Dated 1847, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
Description
1788 & 1825 'Scotch Grove Mill' approx at NGR (B1).
Posse Comitatus - 1 watermill (B2).
OS 'Scotsgrove Mill (corn)' at NGR (B3).
Domesday - 2 mills. James I grant to Richard Beake for 40 years (B4).
Description, plans & photographs (B5-6).
Finished working 1967. Now converted into private house (B7).
Detailed historical notes, 1930s condition and photograph. Working in 2006 (B9).
Grade II. House, former watermill and mill house. C18, C19, the north service building dated 1847. Mill house witchert, colourwashed and rendered on a rubblestone plinth, west front masonry scribed with rusticated quoins and jambs, vermiculated flat arches to windows. Mill building and north outbuildings mostly brick with rubblestone lower floors to parts. Old tile roofs, some slates and pantiles on service buildings. House of 2 bays and 2 storeys with central 4-panel door with flat hood on brackets. 4 pane sashes. Dentil eaves. At rear a 2 storey wing of one bay which has projecting stack of rubblestone and brick flue. Modern casements. Mill buildings have to south of house gabled bay of 2 storeys with attic. French doors on east side, then two 2-light casements above. Attic window. West elevation has two 2-light casements. Inside on ground floor some machinery. To south one bay wing, door and casement to east, casement to west and south elevation which has scribed colourwashed render gable. Undershot wheel in north end of this bay. Service buildings of 3 bays, then 2 bays at north end. The mill was working until the mid 1960's (B8).
Sources (9)
- <1>SBC6726 Map: JEFFERYS T 1788 MAP OF BUCKS/BRYANT A 1825 MAP OF BUCKS.
- <2>SBC12417 Bibliographic reference: POSSE COMITATUS 1798 (MS AT BRO;REF L/P/15 &16).
- <3>SBC10185 Map: OS 1877/85 1:10560 1ST EDITION MAP (& SUBSEQUENT E DITIONS).
- <4>SBC20461 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1908. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume II. Volume 2. p284.
- <5>SBC8132 Bibliographic reference: MAJOR J KENNETH,SCOTS GROVE MILL:AN APPRAISAL (COP Y FILED).
- <6>SBC1779 Bibliographic reference: BOSTON F G, ON WATER MILLS (SCOTSGROVE MILL) (COPY F ILED).
- <7>SBC8484 Bibliographic reference: MELLOR J & WHITEMAN M (CMAG),MAY 1982,FIELD VISIT & INFORMATION FROM MR JOHN CLINTON (MILL OWNER)..
- <8>SBC19924 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bucks: Aylesbury Vale: Parishes of Ashendon &C.
- <9>SBC23045 Bibliographic reference: Michael Farley, Edward Legg and James Venn (eds). 2007. The Watermills of Buckinghamshire: A 1930s account by Stanley Freese with original photographs. pp.119-120.
Location
Grid reference | SP 71943 07220 (point) |
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Civil Parish | HADDENHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
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Related Events/Activities (1)
- Event - Survey: (EBC13649)
Record last edited
Nov 27 2023 9:14PM