Fringford Mill And Attached Millhouse

FRINGFORD A421 (west side) Fringford Mill and attached Millhouse 20/130 The map reference shall be amended to read: 8/130

FRINGFORD A421 SP6028 (West side) 20/130 Fringford Mill and attached Millhouse

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Watermill and millhouse. C18 with possible medieval origins. C19 and C20 repairs and additions. Coursed limestone rubble and squared coursed blocks/limestone. Brick repairs. Weatherboarded left end gable to mill. Steeply-pitched red tile roof. Brick internal ridge and end stacks. Long rectangular range of 4-unit plan altogether. Watermill: 2-unit plan. 2 Storeys and attic. Main entrance in left end. 2 doors on front, one into projecting lean-to on left, which has 3-light casement. Other door has wooden lintel. Left gable has 2 renewed C20 metal casements. The single-storey lean-to has reset 2-light wood-mullioned windows and C20 window. Interior: butt-purlin roof with collars and side purlins. 2 working millstones together with associated mill furniture and tools. The tuns and horses remain on the stone floor, as do the meal arks on the floor below. Unusually slender wooden upright shaft with fine facets. Mill machinery is mainly of iron and of later C19, the stone furniture incorporating earlier woodwork. Exterior mill wheel is a breast waterwheel C19. Millhouse: 2-unit plan with C20 extension on right end. 2-storey, 2-window range. Recessed entrance to left has C20 door. 3 C20 casements with 2 C20 casements over. Large buttress in centre. Interior not inspected but said to have base crucks. A mill at Fringford was mentioned in the Doomsday survey as part of the holdings of Cogges Prior. The mill was worked till early C20 by the Fennemore family and continues to be used for demonstrations. (Information from S.P.A.B. Wind and Watermill Section)

Listing NGR: SP6132028732