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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1988
- Type
- Millhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
EYNSHAM MILL LANE SP41SW (West side) 4/136 Eynsham Mill
GV II
Millhouse, now house. c.1800 with C17 origins. Coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings; gabled stone slate roof, with Welsh slates to rear; brick end stacks. L-plan with rear right wing. Late Georgian style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 4-window range. Keyed flat arches over C20 door (with C20 classical porch), and over 6-pane and 8-pane sashes: raised storey band. Late C18 block to right of 2 storeys; 2-window range with 3 sashes, in similar style; has C20 parapet and Welsh slate roof, Early/mid C19 rear wing of limestone rubble with gabled Welsh slate roof, extended in C20. Part of C17 two-storey house incorporated in rear left wall: of similar materials, with chamfered timber lintels over window openings. Interior noted as having been remodelled in 1970's; old beams in C17 part. The now demolished mills provided paper for the Clarendon Press in Oxford. The Swan family bought it in 1804: they pioneered mechanized paper and produced the tarred paper used at Great Tew, Wolvercote Mill and The Malthouse, Newland Street, Eynsham (q.v.). (Information from the V.C.H.).
Listing NGR: SP4381210806
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