Description

TOLLESHUNT D'ARCY OXLEY HILL
TL 91 SW
(south-west side)
3/76 Oxley Green Farmhouse
- II

House. Early C19, or earlier. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with
concrete tiles. 4 bays facing SE, with internal stack at right end and external
stack at left end. Parallel narrower service range to rear, with C19 lean-to
extension to rear of it. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 early C20
sashes. First floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights, with some handmade glass.
Central C20 half-glazed door. Central stair. Chamfered transverse beam with
lamb's tongue stops of unusual elongated design in left ground-floor roan, boxed
transverse beam in other ground-floor room. Formerly the house of a miller,
associated with a post mill which stood immediately to the SW from 1811, and
combined with a farm holding of 9 acres from 1851. The mill had a single-storey
brick roundhouse, tailpole, and 2 pairs of French stones. Steam power was added
in 1886, but wind operation continued until c.1914. The mill was demolished
c.1920. (K.T. Farries, Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights, V,
forthcoming).

Listing NGR: TL9108214267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435321

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]