Building record 0244500000 - COPSTONE WINDMILL

Summary

Early nineteenth century windmill now converted into a house, on the site of earlier windmills recorded in historical documents and maps back to the seventeenth century

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Listed Building (II) 1332114: COBSTONE WINDMILL (DBC5965)

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Type and Period (3)

SMOCK MILL (17th Century to Modern - 1600 AD to 1945 AD)
HOUSE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
WINDMILL (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Plan Form - Dodecahedron.
Grade II. House, formerly windmill. Late C18 - early C19 smock mill, restored and converted c.1975 for Hayley Mills. Blackened brick ground floor, timber frame and weatherboard above. Scalloped wooden frieze at base of ogee lead roof with finial. 12 sides, 3 storeys. 3 sides have paired barred wooden casements, all renewed C20, those to ground floor with cambered heads, those above with board hoods. 2 half-glazed doors. 4 wooden sails, fantail with small platform. Interior retains some machinery. Landmark (B6).
Mill on Copstone Hill 1633 (B1).
Gave name to 'Mill Hanging Wood' to east (B2).
On C18 & C19 maps at NGR (B3).
1830 newspaper ad for 'new built windmill' (B4).
Ceased work c.1910 (B1).
Photo 1912 (B5).
Early C19 smock mill, brick ground floor, weatherboard above. 1976 converted to house (B7).
Ogee cap (B8)
Buildings report held at NMR (B9).

Sources (9)

<1>SBC14620 Bibliographic reference: SMITH D 1932 ENGLISH WINDMILLS 2 P134.
<2>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p63.
<3>SBC6721 Map: JEFFERYS T 1788 MAP OF BUCKS/ BRYANT A 1825 MAP OF BUCKS/ OS 1876/83 1ST EDITION 6 INCH MAP (& SUBSE.
<4>SBC9579 Unpublished document: MS NOTES OF S FREESE (PER MR J H VENN, JULY 1986).
<5>SBC12245 Unpublished document: Information from the Underhill Collection (Ms 185) an album of early 20th century photos in Museum of the History of Science, Oxford).
<6>SBC3985 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1986. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKS; WYCOMBE: PARISHES OF FAWLEY &C. p67.
<7>SBC14603 Bibliographic reference: SMITH A C 1976 WINDMILLS IN BUCKS & OXON PP10,17.
<8>SBC16327 Bibliographic reference: John Vince. 1976. Windmills in Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns. pp18, 22.
<9>SBC23358 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2006. NMR Buildings Reports. BF001944.

Location

Grid reference	SU 76976 91496 (point)
Civil Parish	IBSTONE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Apr 17 2025 3:34PM