Bodicote Mill

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BODICOTE

SP 4537 BODICOTE Mill

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Mill and attached Mill House. Mill probably late C18, mill house c1840, both restored 1988-9. Red brick, in Fleinish bond, returns of mill in English garden wall bond; rear of rubblestone brought to course. Welsh slate roof. Mill of 3 storeys with two lst-floor windows; mill house, on right, of 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays. Mill: segmental soldier-brick arches to openings ; on left, top of wheel-pit arch is visible; C20 board stable door to right of centre franked by 12-pane sashes; on 1st and 2nd floors rightbay has a 15-pane sash (formerly a doorway) with a 6-pane sash over; on left a tall 24-pane sash (formerly one window to each floor) ; dentilled eaves. Mill house: plinth; openings have keyed stone lintels; central door of 6 flush panels having overlight with decorative glazing bars; blind window above door, other windows have 16-pane sashes; dentilled eaves; two restored gabled dormers; brick end stacks. Rear: brick quoins; one of the stones has eroded C17 date (16?90) ; various late- C20 small-pane windows with timber lintels; on right, round brick arch to wheel pit with C20 rebuilt sluice in front. Left return: door to wheel pit; bricked- up window in gable. Interior: mill has old beams and floorboards; surviving mill machinery includes the shaft, wallower, spur w+eel,crown wheel, stone nuts with handles, 2 bedstones (on 1st floor) and retrains of pulley system.

There has been a mill at Bodicote and probably on this site since the C11, and the present mill building is probably the one marked on the map of the County of Oxfordshire by Richard Davis of 1797. W Foreman, Oxfordshire Mills(1983), illustration on p18. Signed by authority of the

Listing NGR: SP4586937219