Monument record 0521200000 - HOME FARM SAW MILL, STOWE

Sawmill, originally with waterwheel. Never used as a cornmill. Later fitted with a turbine (B1,B3). Smaller turbine fitted post-1920, used for sawing & electricity generation (B2-3).
Still working in 1946? (B1).
In 1983 mill building dilapidated, disused turbine in-situ (B2).
Site 1/2 mile WNW of church (B1).
Historical notes and 1930s condition. Mill working in 2006 (B4).
The survival of the small water-powered sawmill complex attached to the Home Farm at Stowe is considered to be of importance, both as an integral part of the management of a large country estate in the 19th century and on its own merit, as one of a diminishing number of estate buildings that used water as a motive power for driving machinery that was required for farm and estate use. Further documentary research is required, which it is anticipated will supply more precise details about the history and development of the buildings and their working parts. It is considered that the buildings should be further investigated and retained, in all or part, and every effort made to repair and reuse them, if feasible (B5).