Oxley Green Farmhouse

TOLLESHUNT D'ARCY OXLEY HILL TL 91 SW (south-west side) 3/76 Oxley Green Farmhouse - II

House. Early C19, or earlier. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with concrete tiles. 4 bays facing SE, with internal stack at right end and external stack at left end. Parallel narrower service range to rear, with C19 lean-to extension to rear of it. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 early C20 sashes. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights, with some handmade glass. Central C20 half-glazed door. Central stair. Chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops of unusual elongated design in left ground-floor roan, boxed transverse beam in other ground-floor room. Formerly the house of a miller, associated with a post mill which stood immediately to the SW from 1811, and combined with a farm holding of 9 acres from 1851. The mill had a single-storey brick roundhouse, tailpole, and 2 pairs of French stones. Steam power was added in 1886, but wind operation continued until c.1914. The mill was demolished c.1920. (K.T. Farries, Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights, V, forthcoming).

Listing NGR: TL9108214267