Description

SP43SE DEDDINGTON B4031 (North side) Clifton 3/132 Clifton Mill, Millhouse and attached millstream bridge

II Watermill, millhouse and bridge. C17 and C19. Coursed limestone rubble and coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings and some wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs. L-shaped plan. Mill, of 2 storeys plus loft, is in 2 builds, the larger to east mainly C17 and built of limestone. Its road front includes 2 small windows, with moulded-stone surrounds, flanking a central opening with chamfered jambs and a stone lintel, to extreme right is a stable-type door, and to extreme left a wide segmental-arched opening with a chamfered ashlar surround; first floor has 2-light casements flanking a loading door. Right end wall has a further loading door above 2 blocked windows with moulded stone surrounds. The C19 section is taller and has marlstone-ashlar dressings. Millhouse, returning at rightangles from it, is an irregular 5-window range of 2 storeys and of several builds, although probably mainly c17; it is part limestone and part marlstone and has renewed casements, some retaining chamfered lintels. Steep-pitched roof has 2 weatherboarded gables and 2 brick stacks. Interior: Mill has a metal breast-shot wheel and fairly complete wood and metal gear, but formerly had a second wheel. Bridge over tailrace, carrying the B4031, is in coursed rubble with a C19 brick segmental arch; plain parapet has flat copings and extends approximately 20 metres to west, (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p107; Foreman, W.: Oxfordshire Mills, 1983; p104)

Listing NGR: SP4920231900

External Links

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