Duxford Mill

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