Eynsham Mill is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1988. Millhouse.
Eynsham Mill
- WRENN ID
- drifting-courtyard-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1988
- Type
- Millhouse
- Address
- Eynsham Mill, Mill Lane
- OS grid reference
- SP 438 108
- Coordinates
- 51.7942, -1.36612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eynsham Mill is a millhouse, now a house, dating from around 1800 but with origins in the 17th century. It is built of coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings and features a gabled stone slate roof, with Welsh slates on the rear and brick end stacks. The building has an L-plan with a rear right wing and is designed in a late Georgian style. It stands two storeys tall and has a symmetrical four-window range. There are keyed flat arches over a 20th-century door, which has a 20th-century classical porch, and over six-pane and eight-pane sash windows, along with a raised storey band.
To the right, there is a late 18th-century block that is also two storeys high, featuring a two-window range with three sashes in a similar style, and it has a 20th-century parapet and a Welsh slate roof. The early to mid-19th-century rear wing is made of limestone rubble and has a gabled Welsh slate roof, which was extended in the 20th century. Incorporated into the rear left wall is part of a 17th-century two-storey house, constructed of similar materials and featuring chamfered timber lintels over window openings. The interior was noted to have been remodelled in the 1970s, but retains old beams in the 17th-century section. The now-demolished mills that were once part of the site provided paper for the Clarendon Press in Oxford. The Swan family purchased the mill in 1804 and were pioneers of mechanized paper production, creating the tarred paper used at Great Tew, Wolvercote Mill, and The Malthouse on Newland Street in Eynsham.
Local climate
Eynsham Mill receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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