Building record 0437201000 - The Old Mill Club, Oxford Road

Summary

Post-medieval watermill, refronted in the eighteenth century, now a garage.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1124495: THE OLD MILL CLUB CHRIS LEE CARRIAGE COMPANY LIMITED

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Type and Period (2)

  • (Former Type) WATERMILL (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD? to 1799 AD)
  • GARAGE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Grade II. A mill recorded on this site as early as the late C14. Last used as a mill in 1908. Refronted in C18. Colourwashed brick; old tiled half-hipped roof. Two storeys. Ground floor with a door, 2 modern fixed windows and 2 doors, one with side windows and garage entry. First floor with two 2-light and two 3-light casements and 2 fixed windows with glazing bars. Four dormer windows in the roof, 5 windows South side to Willow Avenue. 5 leaded dormers. Cambered hand windows to 1st and ground floors (B7).
Mill building shown on maps from 1602 onwards and recorded as the mill in the 1842 Tithe Map schedule (B8).
Detailed historical notes and 1930s condition. Working as a garage in 2006 (B9)

Sources (3)

  • <7>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p101.
  • <8>SBC23047 Unpublished document: CgMs Consulting. 2004. Supporting Statement - Historic Buildings: Former William King Flour Mill (New Mills), New Denham.
  • <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. p.175.

Location

Grid reference TQ 05074 84723 (point)
Civil Parish DENHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jul 9 2008 10:20AM

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